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{{review|From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again|Daniel Dennett|26 September 2017|How to philosophise with a hammer}} | |||
:''Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own, unaided by the describing activities of humans, cannot.'' | :''Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own, unaided by the describing activities of humans, cannot.'' | ||
::- {{author|Richard Rorty}}, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity | ::- {{author|Richard Rorty}}, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity | ||