The Platonic response to the affirmation of pragmatism on the basis of a rejection of representationalism is that the criteria for evaluating practical solutions require a mode of cognition unavailable to the antirepresentationalist. It is a mode of cognition that is not representational, because it is presumed by all representation. Plato’s response to Rorty’s pragmatism will deny his assertion that there is no difference between “it works because it is true” and “it is true because it works.”
