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  • I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

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    Writing   Thinking   Mathematical Logic  
    "What Philosophers Think" by Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, (p. 233), 2005.

  • ... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

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    Pain   Behaviour   Causes  

  • I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.

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    Looks   Today   Tomorrow  

  • It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

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    Dream   Today   Lasts  
    "Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism". Book by James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen, 2002.

  • While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

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    Philosophical   Trying   Way  

  • The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.

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    Real   Numbers   Law  
    Hilary Putnam (1979). “Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

  • Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.

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    Science   Sight   Historical  

  • Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

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    Cutting   Pie   Way  
    Hilary Putnam (1979). “Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

  • No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

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    Believe   Subjectivity   Should  
    Hilary Putnam (1987). “The many faces of realism”, Open Court Pub Co
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Hilary Putnam

  • Born: July 31, 1926
  • Died: March 13, 2016
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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