FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
"Final vocabulary" is a term invented by Richard Rorty and explicated in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. A "final vocabulary" is a set of communicative beliefs whose contingency is more or less ignored by the bearer. These beliefs can concern anything; it does not matter whether they are shared by the entire human race or are entirely unique. For an ironist, a "final vocabulary" is always suspect. Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 in New York City – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. ... Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), written by American philosopher Richard Rorty, is based on two sets of lectures given at University College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. ... In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of facts that are not logically necessary. ...
References
Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-521-36781-6
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