Historical note about the Pragmatist Revival

This was news to me, that pragmatism was eclipsed by the 1940s until Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam, though note that the video says they were eclipsed by positivism, i.e. the idea that philosophical statements need to be cashed out in terms of sense verifications, which is a species of a view we attributed on the podcast to William James, though certainly James's view was more permissive, i.e. there are more ways that a theory can be of value to us than being confirmable by sensations.

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