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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: Words and Life (Harvard University Press, 1994)Verified