Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Nelson Goodman
Born: August 7, 1906
Died: November 25, 1998 (aged 92)
Bio: Henry Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics.
Known for:
- Languages of Art (1968)
- Ways of worldmaking (1978)
- Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (1955)
- The structure of appearance (1951)
- Of Mind and Other Matters (1984)