Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Saul Kripke
Born: November 13, 1940
Died: September 15, 2022 (aged 81)
Bio: Saul Aaron Kripke was an American philosopher and logician. He was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University.
Known for:
- Naming and Necessity (1980)
- Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982)
- Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers (2011)
- Introduction au paradoxe de Wittgenstein (1996)