We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
Experience is of particulars only. - Abraham Kaplan
Experience is of particulars only.
- Abraham Kaplan
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently. - Abraham Kaplan
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientist… - Abraham Kaplan
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientist…
We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife. - Abraham Kaplan
We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the sma… - Abraham Kaplan
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the sma…
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would … - Abraham Kaplan
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would …
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. - Abraham Kaplan
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. - Abraham Kaplan
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law… - Abraham Kaplan
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law…
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