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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/we-are-caught-up-in-a-paradox-one-which-might-be-called-the-paradox/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

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## More by Abraham Kaplan

> [Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/give-a-small-boy-a-hammer-and-he-will-find-that-everything-he/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [“Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/give-a-small-boy-a-hammer-and-he-will-find-that-everything-he-2/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [“We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/we-are-forever-asking-nature-whether-it-has-stopped-beating-its-wife/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [Experience is of particulars only.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/experience-is-of-particulars-only/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/to-get-at-the-meaning-of-a-statement-the-logical-positivist-asks-what/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/we-are-caught-up-in-a-paradox-one-which-might-be-called-the-paradox/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/the-price-of-training-is-always-a-certain-trained-incapacity-the-more/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/every-discipline-develops-standards-of-professional-competence-to/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/a-philosophy-which-speaks-even-indirectly-only-to-philosophers-is-no/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/mathematics-is-not-yet-capable-of-coping-with-the-na-vet-of-the/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/there-is-nothing-more-inspiring-than-having-a-mind-unfold-before-you/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

> [A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/a-problem-is-something-you-can-do-something-about-if-you-can-t-do/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kaplan/in-addition-to-the-social-pressures-from-the-scientific-community/)

[Abraham Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kaplan/)

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