Logical Positivist Quotes by Abraham Kaplan

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Abraham Kaplan has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
• Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small,…
• The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is…
• Experience is of particulars only.
• To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true?…
• We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to…
• Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
• 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…

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