Is “coping” talk just an evolutionary biology / memetic thing?
This ‘reductionist’ interpretation is not true for Rorty:
Language is not a tool, as Dewey would have it, though it’s a nice metaphor for some purposes, it can be stretched too far:
Tool requires a common purpose that you can compare different tools for (e.g. nails / glue / screws all are tools for sticking wood blocks together)
But we cannot formulate the goal of language without already having language (we don’t have access to “nature’s true language” to do this, either).
Thus the meaning coping must be within to some vocabulary.