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Tracing the causes of who one is requires telling one's story in a new language
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- Richard Rorty Pragmatist philosopher (1931 to 2007) whose Contingency
So the only way to trace home the causes of one’s being as one is would be to tell a story about one’s causes in a new language.
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↗Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)archive.org
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