Quote of the day
It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
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)