The Final Vocabulary

Most people view their intellectual development as a person as a linear progression of moving past appearances and getting to the reality of the world. But rordy would say that, although we often deceive ourselves into thinking it's the truth, really what we've created here is what he calls a final vocabulary. To say that the world is out there, that it is not our creation, is to say with common sense that most things in spa and time are the effects of causes which do not include human mental states. i think it would be helpful to hear rody talk about how these statements ultimately relate to the language we use. He says we need to make a distinction between the claim that the world