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Max Black

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[Wikipedia] Max Black was a Russian-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II. He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics and science, and the philosophy of art, also publishing studies of the work of

Quotes by Max Black

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Accepted

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No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and…

Dangerous

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Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

Fine

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Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Code

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We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know…

Capricious

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...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

May

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... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to…

Aspect

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