Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)