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Where does Rorty say to avoid metaphysical problems is to stop asking them?

I am reading a dissertation and writer says this:

"For Rorty, the way to avoid metaphysical problems is to stop asking (and thinking about, and obsessing over) metaphysical questions. This will take time and practice, but its primary strategy is simple avoidance. For the pragmatist, nihilism takes essentialist theories of truth too seriously." (Rorty,  Consequences of Pragmatism, 1982, xxxvii, xlii, 192-3 and 206-8.)

But when i check the original text i don't think Rorty says or implies that thought in those pages. I am not well versed about Rorty's pragmatism, does he make that point if so in which book or article? Thanks in advance.
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I don't have that book, but those later citations are pointing to parts of "Method, Social Science, and Social Hope" (especially the first few pages) where he says stuff like this:

>  The importance of Kuhn seems to me to be that, like Dewey, he is
 one of these few. Kuhn and Dewey suggest we give up the notion of
 science traveling towards an end called 'correspondence with reality'
 and instead say merely that a given vocabulary works better than
 another for a given purpose. If we accept their suggestion, we shall not
 be inclined to ask 'What method do scientists use?'...We shall not think there is or could be an epistemologically
 pregnant answer to the question 'What did Galileo do right that
 Aristotle did wrong?,' any more than we should expect such an answer
 to the questions 'What did Plato do right that Xenophon did wrong?' or
 'What did Mirabeau do right that Louis XVI did wrong?' We shall just say
 that Galileo had a good idea, and Aristotle a less good idea; Galileo was
 using some terminology which helped, and Aristotle wasn't. Galileo's
 terminology was the only 'secret' he had - he didn't pick that ter-
 minology because it was 'clear' or 'natural,' or 'simple,' or in line with
 the categories of the pure understanding. He just lucked out

That is, Rorty sees Kuhn and Dewey as putting an end to asking certain kinds of questions and, thus, ending the flailing which he describes the tradition as being locked in.