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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 constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.

Max Black

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

Max Black

The progress of mathematics is not smooth, nor is the science, as the layman imagines, a collection of subtle principles and infallible results, springing mysteriously yet convincingly into the minds of their inventors.

Max Black

Scientists can never hope to be in a position to know the truth, nor would they have any means of recognizing it if it came into their possession.

Max Black

Perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor there would be no algebra.

Max Black

Max Black

Max Black

Born: February 24, 1909

Died: August 27, 1988 (aged 79)

Bio: Max Black was a British-American philosopher, who was a figure in analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century.

Known for:

Models and metaphors
Philosophy in America (1965)
The prevalence of humbug, and other essays (1983)
Problems of analysis (1954)
Art, Perception and Reality (1972)

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