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 we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.” — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
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.… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
