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David’s Quotes

“I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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“Knowing how to apply maxims cannot be reduced to, or derived from, the acceptance of those or any other maxims.”
― Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

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“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

tags: philosophy-of-science, science

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“Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.”
― Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

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“New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

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