Hilary Putnam Quotes
- Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to…
- ...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…
- I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
- No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
- 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,…