Cut the pie any way you like, 'meanings' just ain't in the head.

Hilary Putnam

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Hilary Putnam

American philosopher (1926-2016) who reshaped late-20th-century analytic philosophy. Founder of functionalism, source of the Twin Earth experiment and semantic externalism, and famous for the brain-in-a-vat scenario.

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Source: The Meaning of 'Meaning', in Mind, Language and Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1975)Verified

Hilary Putnam's Other Quotes

The mind and the world jointly make up the mind and the world.

It is part of the nature of philosophy that there are some questions that cannot be put off.

It is the nature of intelligence to outrun previous formulations of itself.

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