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Abraham Kaplan

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American philosopher (1918-1993)

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  • Arvit leshabat
  • In Pursuit of Wisdom
  • In Pursuit of Wisdom The Scope of Philosophy
  • The new world of philosophy
  • The new world of philosophy (A Vintage book)

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Hailed by Leonard Bernstein as “a heaven-sent maestro,” Abraham Kaplan is considered by many to be one of the greatest choral conductors and composers of his generation. Mr. Bernstein collaborated musically with Abraham Kaplan for over 13 years, calling on Kaplan’s expertise for performances such as the world premiere of his Kaddish Symphony and the Chichester Psalms. Distinguished by his compositions as well as his conducting, Kaplan has published and recorded at least four major works for ch

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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.
  • In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • Experience is of particulars only.
  • To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" 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?"
  • We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. 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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date of death
1993-06-19
date of birth
1931-00-00
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