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Quotes from The Many Faces of Realism — Hilary Putnam

1926–2016 United States

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No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

The Many Faces of Realism (1987)

To require that all of these must be reducible to a single version is to make the mistake of supposing that 'Which are the real objects?' is a question that makes sense independently of our choice of concepts.

The Many Faces of Realism (1987)

The problem with all this--the problem I discussed in the first lecture--is that if the causes/background conditions distinction is fundamentally subjective, not descriptive of the world in itself, then current philosophical explanations of the metaphysical nature of reference are bankrupt.

The Many Faces of Realism (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hilary Putnam (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.