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Quotes from Philosophy in a New Key — Susanne Langer

1895–1985 United States

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If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.

Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it—right or wrong—may be given.

Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

The men in the laboratory [...] cannot be said to observe the actual objects of their curiosity at all.[...] The sense data on which the propositions of modern science rest are, for the most part, little photographic spots and blurs, or inky curved lines on paper.[...] What is directly observable is only a sign of the "physical fact"; it requires interpretation to yield scientific propositions.

Philosophy in a New Key (1942)

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