“The rise of the notion of knowledge as a matter of rightly ordered inner representations — an unclouded and undistorting Mirror of Nature — was due to the notion that the difference between the man whose beliefs were true and the man whose beliefs were false was a matter of “how their minds worked.” If this phrase is taken in the sense of “what they would say in a conversation,” it is true but shallow and unphilosophical. To make it deep and philosophical, one must believe, with Descartes and Locke, that a taxonomy of mental entities and processes will lead to discoveries which will provide one with a method of discovering truth, and not just truth about the mind.”

– Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

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