But when Rorty says (so blithely) that only a sentence can be relevant to the truth of another sentence, a sentence like "Millions of human beings were murdered in the 20th century" comes to mind.
For what makes this sentence true, and is therefore relevant to its truth, is not other sentences in a web of sentences, but the strictly nonlinguistic fact that millions of human beings were murdered in the 20th century.
If Representative Todd Akin's remarks about "legitimate rape" provoked an uproar, shouldn't it be incomparably more offensive that millions of human beings are still trafficked in the 21st century?
God exists in the minds of millions of human beings.
Buried in Tooby's little parenthetical — "where they exist" — are millions of human bodies.
Members of the Wehrmacht helped enforce Nazi policies, which sent millions of human beings to the slaughter.
Last century we were prepared to sacrifice many of the world's great cities and tens of millions of human lives.
SAN ANTONIO — BIOMEDICAL research with captive chimpanzees, an enterprise that has helped save millions of human lives, is being dismantled.
By a stroke of the autocrat's pen, tens of millions of human chattels were given their personal freedom.
It is difficult to keep track of every factor in the interaction of millions of human beings.
"Innumerable millions of human beings were killed in this century in the name of utopia," the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz reminded his audience, at a 1986 PEN conference.
