A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.

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A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.

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I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

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I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
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Scientific Trait
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.

ABRAHAM KAPLAN

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.
ABRAHAM KAPLAN

Indirectly
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

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Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
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Agency Community Competence Profession
A problem is something you can do something about. If you can’t do something about it, then it’s not a problem, it’s a predicament. That means it’s something that must be coped with, endured.

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A problem is something you can do something about. If you can’t do something about it, then it’s not a problem, it’s a predicament. That means it’s something that must be coped with, endured.
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Execute Mean Plan Predicament Something
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.

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In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.
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Addiction Boys Community
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

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The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
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Certain Incapacity More Something
We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
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Asking Beating Stopped
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, “What would the world be like if it were true?”
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The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

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The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
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Concept Formulate Proper
The operationist asks, “What would we have to do to come to believe it?” For the pragmatist the question is, “What would we do if did believe it?”

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The operationist asks, “What would we have to do to come to believe it?” For the pragmatist the question is, “What would we do if did believe it?”
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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
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Coping Naivete Ves
There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

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There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.
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Before Inspiring Teach Unfold
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
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Humorous Parenting Small
It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

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It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
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Formulate Particular Require
Experience is of particulars only.

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Experience is of particulars only.
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Particular Work Hard
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization.

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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization.
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