Discussion
For Rorty epistemology believes the mind to work on empirical reality to :
Answer: A
For Rorty, traditional epistemology takes the mind to mirror reality.
In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Richard Rorty argued that modern philosophy since Descartes and Locke pictured the mind as a great mirror containing representations of reality, some accurate and some not. Epistemology became the study of how to make those representations accurate.
Rorty's own pragmatism rejects this picture. The book's title names the metaphor, which is why mirroring, not negating, transcending or rationalising, is the answer.
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