Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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| Birth: | 4th October, 1931 |
| Death: | 8th June, 2007 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Philosopher |
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Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
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