Sunday, January 15, 2012

Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science with Bryan Magee

  • science is not as sure of itself as it was before, a fact that is less clear to non-scientists
  • the idea of truth as a correspondence function is deteriorating
  • what is true and what is false is in part a function of what our standards of truth are 
  • there is not a great degree of agreement with regard to what a science is 
  • Aristotle said that the soul of an ax is cutting, the soul of the eye is seeing. the soul is function. the soul of the human is thinking 
  • what is the sense that allows us to see how numbers are? 

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