Rorty does this by presenting them as pseudo-problems that only exist in the language-game of epistemological projects culminating in analytic philosophy.

In a pragmatist gesture, Rorty suggests that philosophy must get past these pseudo-problems if it is to be productive.

The main influences on Rorty's work were John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Wilfrid Sellars.

For him, "true" is simply an honorific that knowers bestow upon claims, asserting that they are what "we" want to say about a particular matter.

It had its greatest success outside analytic philosophy, despite its reliance on arguments by Quine and Sellars, and was widely influential in the humanities.