Putnam on Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater

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Hilary Putnam talks about his teachers, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap and the tendency in philosophy and other arts and humanities to simply discard old ideas. Reichenbach had an insight about preserving certain classes of observation statements that serve as a functional a priori, a Kantian notion, but was later persuaded by Carnap to discard the idea.

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