Abraham Kaplan

(1931–2023) Choir Director United States

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Abraham Kaplan was a choir director from the United States, best known for The conduct of inquiry.

Quick Facts About Abraham Kaplan

Born: May 5, 1931
Died: September 6, 2023
Nationality: United States
Profession: Choir Director
Notable works: The conduct of inquiry

About Abraham Kaplan

Abraham Kaplan was an American philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book The Conduct of Inquiry (1964). His thinking was influenced by pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship

Quotes by Abraham Kaplan

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Abraham Kaplan

Boys

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“Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise…

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Problem solving

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“We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.”

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Asking

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Experience is of particulars only.

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Funny

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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true?…

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Asks

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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…

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Caught

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The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is…

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Certain

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Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small,…

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