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.
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 kn… - Hilary Putnam
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 kn…
- Hilary Putnam
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing… - Hilary Putnam
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing…
Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head! - Hilary Putnam
Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!
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 t… - Hilary Putnam
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 t…
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. - Hilary Putnam
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! - Hilary Putnam
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
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 ha… - Hilary Putnam
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 ha…
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). - Hilary Putnam
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).
I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either. - Hilary Putnam
I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.
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