Top 12 Hilary Putnam Quotes

#1. Causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

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

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

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#5. 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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#6. I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

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#7. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

Wendell Berry

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#8. I will never make my family perfect, but I will make it better everyday.

Wes Fesler

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#9. Common Core is a big win for education.

Bill Gates

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#10. 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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#11. What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

Mary Tyler Moore

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#12. A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.

Sarah Price

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