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. — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either. — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
“Philosophy needs vision and argument… there is something disappointing about a philosophical work that contains arguments, however good, which are not inspired by some… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
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… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
“All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
