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Hilary Putnam

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  • Hilary Putnam

    Hilary Putnam
    Hilary Putnam was born July 31, 1926. He just recently passed away at the age of 90 on March 13, 2016.

  • Unsolvable

    Unsolvable
    Although it isn't really in the realm of Philosophy, in 1961 through 1970 the basis to one of the unsolvable equations using only integer constants to equal integer solutions. This was one of the problems that he had helped prove to be unsolvable. Y. B. (n.d.). Hilary Putnam American Philospher. Retrieved February 6, 2019, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Putnam

  • Realism

    Realism
    One of the biggest things we see form Putnam's work was the that he did not believe in metaphysical realism but should be considered internal realism. Hilary basically wanted people to reject the thought of God's point of view of things. Relying on more truth pushing more towards conceptual realism, which he later took hold on and left the entire portion of Internal Realism.

  • Summary

    Summary
    Putnam brought the theories of paradigms together by his realism differences and allowed for them to be stating the same thing without utilizing the same description or even pictures. This means ones could mean something on another identical plain such as carbon, could be the same yet they don't know the chemical structure as of yet, this is externalism. The biggest contributions were his relations to the different versions or varieties in Realism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3sfrK5B4E