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Oddly enough, Putnam believes part of the attraction of some of these formalisms is their obscurity:
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

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No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

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It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

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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, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.

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Causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

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Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

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Born: July 31, 1926
Died: March 13, 2016 (aged 89)
Bio: Hilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.
Known for:
  1. Reason, truth, and history (1981)
  2. Representation and Reality (1988)
  3. Realism with a human face (1990)
  4. The many faces of realism (1987)

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