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Rorty is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Rorty meaning

Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.

Using Rorty

  • The main meaning on this page is: Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.
  • In the example corpus, rorty often appears in combinations such as: richard rorty, and rorty, rorty and.

Context around Rorty

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 4 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

richard 5× nevertheless 1× pragmatist 1× says 1×

Often after:

ernesto 1× asserted 1× claimed 1× 1998 1× foucault 1×

Sentence patterns with Rorty

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

as richard rorty and jacques 1× audience for rorty 1× criticized richard rorty and postmodernist 1× he and rorty have both 1× neopragmatist richard rorty was in 1× nevertheless rorty asserted that 1× nietzsche and rorty are skeptical 1× pragmatist rorty claimed that 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

derrida s thinking 1× donald davidson is 1× he also argues 1× musgrave criticized richard 1× nevertheless rorty asserted 1× noted neopragmatist richard 1×

Common sentence endings:

account of it 1× approach to politics 1× as a whole 1× audience for rorty 1× between their philosophies 1× day ludwig wittgenstein 1×

Words around Rorty

Just before it in the word index:

rortvedt 6 rorts 5 rorschach 38 rorris 3 rorrer 2 rorquals 3

Just after it in the word index:

rory 476 ros 81 rosa 643 rosabella 2 rosabelle 3 rosacea 14

Similar in corpus frequency:

aami 16 abada 16 abbottabad 16 abdulkareem 16 abha 16 abominations 16

Corpus analysis for Rorty

  • In this selection, "rorty" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, richard, nevertheless, pragmatist, ernesto, asserted and claimed stand out and add context to how "rorty" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include as richard rorty and jacques and audience for rorty. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "rorty" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with rorty

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Noted neopragmatist Richard Rorty was in turn a student of Hartshorne. (11 words)

Musgrave criticized Richard Rorty and Postmodernist philosophy in general for confusion of use and mention. (15 words)

Rorty (1998), p. 178 Much of humanity is similarly offended by the suggestion that the moral community be extended to nonhumans. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Rorty in particular elaborates further on this, claiming that the individual, the community, the human body as a whole have a 'means by which they know the world' (this entails language, culture, semiotic systems, mathematics, science etc.). (37 words)

He also argues that the notion of warrant or justification can do most of the work traditionally assigned to the concept of truth, and that justification is relative; justification is justification to an audience, for Rorty. (36 words)

Postmodernists and post-structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses. (35 words)

Example sentences (13)

Derrida's thinking has inspired Slavoj Zizek, Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and many more contemporary theorists who have developed a deconstructive approach to politics.

Donald Davidson is not usually considered a postmodernist, although he and Rorty have both acknowledged that there are few differences between their philosophies.

He also argues that the notion of warrant or justification can do most of the work traditionally assigned to the concept of truth, and that justification is relative; justification is justification to an audience, for Rorty.

Musgrave criticized Richard Rorty and Postmodernist philosophy in general for confusion of use and mention.

Nevertheless, Rorty asserted that what Heidegger had constructed in his writings was a myth of being rather than an account of it.

Noted neopragmatist Richard Rorty was in turn a student of Hartshorne.

Postmodernists and post-structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses.

Pragmatist Rorty claimed that Heidegger's approach to philosophy in the first half of his career has much in common with that of the latter-day Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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Rorty (1998), p. 178 Much of humanity is similarly offended by the suggestion that the moral community be extended to nonhumans.

Rorty in particular elaborates further on this, claiming that the individual, the community, the human body as a whole have a 'means by which they know the world' (this entails language, culture, semiotic systems, mathematics, science etc.).

Says Rorty: Foucault has frequently been criticized by historians for what they consider to be a lack of rigor in his analyses.

See Moritz Schlick, "The future Of philosophy", in The Linguistic Turn, Richard Rorty, ed, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp 43-53.

Some, like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Rorty, are skeptical about subject-centred, universal, or instrumental reason, and even skeptical toward reason as a whole.

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Common combinations with rorty

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "rorty" in a sentence?
An example: "Derrida's thinking has inspired Slavoj Zizek, Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and many more contemporary theorists who have developed a deconstructive approach to politics." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "rorty" from authentic English texts.
What does "rorty" mean?
Rorty means: Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.
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