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Hilary and Putnam's
The content externalist often appeal to observations found as early as Hilary Putnam's seminal essay, " The Meaning of ' Meaning '," ( 1975 ).
( 1996 ) The Twin Earth Chronicles: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's " The Meaning of Meaning ".
This argument by Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam says ( in Putnam's shorter words ),
Indeed, one of Hilary Putnam's arguments for his version of functionalism relied on the intuition that such alien creatures would have the same mental states as humans do, and that the multiple realizability of standard functionalism makes it a better theory of mind.
Hilary Putnam's book Ethics without ontology ( Harvard, 2004 ) argues for a similar view, that ethical ( and for that matter mathematical ) sentences can be true and objective without there being any objects to make them so.

Hilary and Twin
In his Twin Earth thought experiment, Hilary Putnam asks us to imagine a scenario in which there is a substance with all of the observable properties of water ( e. g., taste, color, boiling point ), but which is chemically different from water.
The Twin Earth thought experiment was a thought experiment presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his 1973 paper " Meaning and Reference " and subsequent 1975 paper " The Meaning of ' Meaning '", as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic externalism.

Hilary and Earth
Hilary Spurling's book Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth observes that Buck was the daughter of American missionaries and defends the book against charges that the book is simply a collection of racist stereotypes.
In addition, he has produced and written songs for and with the likes of Enrique, Selena, Earth Wind and Fire, Little Richard / Philip Bailey, Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight, Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Paula Abdul with Ofra Haza and Crystal Bernard, gospel greats BeBe & CeCe Winans, Kirk Franklin and Victoria Beckham.

Hilary and thought
The video-painting movement began with Hilary Lawson ’ s theory of Closure ( published 2001 ), in which he proposed that the world is open and that we close that openness with thought and language.

Hilary and philosophy
Later, Hilary Putnam ( 1975 ) explained these " two miracles " as being necessary consequences of a realist ( but not Platonist ) view of the philosophy of mathematics.
In 1966, he obtained the first Ph. D. in philosophy ever awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the direction of Hilary Putnam.
Benacerraf is perhaps best known for his two papers What Numbers Could Not Be ( 1965 ) and Mathematical Truth ( 1973 ), and for his highly successful anthology on the philosophy of mathematics, co-edited with Hilary Putnam.
He earned his Ph. D. in philosophy from Harvard University under the direction of Hilary Putnam.
* Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam ( 1958 ) " Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis ", http :// philosophy. wisc. edu / shapiro / Phil951 / 2010 / openheim. putnam. unity. pdf, in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science ( vol.

Hilary and language
Hilary of Poitiers, then in the East, heard Eudoxius in his cathedral, and wished his ears had been deaf, so horribly blasphemous was the language.
During the production of the film, Lazenby's voice was dubbed over with George Baker's in scenes in which Bond impersonated Sir Hilary Bray ( Baker's character ), something not traditionally done with a leading actor whose original language is English.

Hilary and mind
The first formulation of a functionalist theory of mind was put forth by Hilary Putnam.
American philosopher Hilary Putnam popularized the modern terminology over Descartes's " evil demon ," although it brings up such complications and objections as whether the mind is reducible to the workings of a brain.
Meanwhile, Hilary vacillates between accepting Meg's love for Gray and pleading with her to change her mind.
The latest version is called the computational theory of mind, associated with philosophers Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor.

Putnam's and Twin
Indeed, Phil Hutchinson notes that a. if one looks at Putnam's own later criticisms of others ( for example his criticisms of Jaegwon Kim in his book The Threefold Cord ) one finds that implicitly he critiques his own earlier self ; and b. that the persuasive power of the Twin Earth thought experiment / intuition pump relies on our turning a blind eye to aspects of the experiment in order that it establish that which Putnam claims it to.

Putnam's and thought
Doctors thought that even if he survived, he would suffer permanent serious brain damage and were intending to " pull the plug ", before Putnam's mother intervened.

Putnam's and experiment
Putnam's original formulation of the experiment was this:
John Dupre, in a number of papers, but mainly in his paper " Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa " has demonstrated that the theory of natural kinds, which many have taken to be established and / or supported by Putnam's Twin-Earth Thought experiment does not find support in the practice of scientific classification.

Putnam's and language
Menier was the author of several works on fiscal and economic questions, notably L ' impôt sur le capital ( 1872 ), La Réforme fiscale ( 1872 ), Economie rurale ( 1875 ), L ' Avenir économique ( 1875-1878 ), Atlas de la production de la richesse ( 1878 ) and, published in the English language by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City in 1878, France And The United States: Their Present Commercial Relations Considered With Reference to a Treaty of Reciprocity ( downloadable )

Twin and Earth
* Twin Earth thought experiment
* Twin Earth
When two quasars are so nearly in the same direction as seen from Earth that they appear to be a single quasar but may be separated by the use of telescopes, they are referred to as a " double quasar ", such as the Twin Quasar.
Searle suggests that in the Twin Earth example, the second seems more plausible, since if Twin Earth doesn't have water, then all its water-based products will also be different.
Daniel Dennett, for example, calls Twin Earth and other experiments like it " intuition pumps ", which play on a strong but ultimately illusory intuition.
* Twin Earth thought experiment
Louris returned and the sum of the collected demos from 1986-1989 were brought together to create Blue Earth, released on the Minneapolis label Twin Tone in 1989.
In 1991, Dave Ayers, the president of Twin Tone, was on a phone call with A & R representative George Drakoulias from Def American while Blue Earth played in the background.
* Twin Earth thought experiment
Under certain circumstances of confusion, this can lead to the alteration of a name's referent ( for one example of how this might happen, see Twin Earth thought experiment ).
A speaker whose environment changes may thus observe that the referents of his terms shift, as described in the Twin Earth and Swamp man thought experiments.
* The Good Earth ( Coyote / Twin / Tone LP 1986 )
Music videos were made for the songs " Twin Earth " and " Face Down ".
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Predominantly Indian settlements include Elbow Lake ; Naytahwaush which is the largest Indian community on the Reservation ; Pine Point ; Rice Lake ; Twin Lakes ; and White Earth which is the second largest Indian settlement on the Reservation.
Some reports claim up to 10, 000 citizens of the White Earth Reservation live in the Twin Cities Metro Area.
Large lakes include Bass Lake ; Big Rat Lake ; Lower Rice Lake ; Many Point Lake ; North Twin Lake-South Twin Lake ; Roy Lake ; Round Lake ; Snider Lake ; Strawberry Lake ; Tulaby Lake ; and White Earth Lake.

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