Hilary Putnam on Philosophy And our Mental Life
Listening to this again I started to think about what a brilliant introduction this lecture would make to a course like Glynn Winskell's Discrete Maths II which has all the background details of functional relations and isomorphism (4:19) and what a theory is and what constitutes a model of a theory (5:26), and what constitutes a successful theory in terms of measurements or observations (38:40). See Relational Semantics: The Evils of Lego. And then I started wondering why on earth I had to spend three years on the streets of Cochabamba before I discovered it! See Jade on Time and Information and Interview with Giorgio de Chirico.
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Maybe it is all about that class of processes called filters: there was just so much divergent junk around that we couldn't find the ends of the golden thread. The answer, I think, is cultivating respect for the dead. By that I don't mean eulogizing their accidents, but studying their work: https://prooftoys.org/ian-grant/hm/. See Happy Birthday Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. So it's fitting that Putnam gives the last word to Aristotle (1:07:07) see Terence McKenna on Time Travel, David Lynch Talks About Who Inspired Him and Gigi Young - The Psychic Experience of Time.
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