In effect, Putnam demonstrates that the state of being an envatted brain is invisible and indescribable from within, but it is unclear that this semantic victory goes far to address the problem in relation to knowledge.

But with so much invested in buildings, little money remained for books or administration … Putnam took the matter up directly with the War Department and obtained assurances that the government would provide utilities.

Back in the United States, Putnam acted to become the trustee of Earhart's estate so that he could pay for the searches and related bills.

In probate court in Los Angeles, Putnam requested to have the " death in absentia " seven-year waiting period waived so that he could manage Earhart's finances.

As late as 1791, Rufus Putnam wrote to President Washington that " we shall be so reduced and discouraged as to give up the settlement.

The problem was most of these bands consisted of the same few members, and so Putnam wanted to form a new band with different people.

Even so, Putnam and Martin recorded a few songs for a Black Sabbath tribute, In These Black Days Volume 1, which was a split with Eyehategod and featured Putnam on drums.

However, that same year, several former employees of Putnam Investments, including the transfer agency chief, were accused in a lawsuit filed by the Security and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) of " defrauding several mutual funds and a corporate retirement plan of $ 4 million " so they could " cover up an investment-processing error.

In 1841, Putnam went to London, UK where he set up a branch office, the first American to ever do so.

Since Eugene Wigner raised the issue in 1960 and Hilary Putnam made it more rigorous in 1975, the question of why fields such as physics and mathematics should agree so well has been debated.

Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright — the final James Bond novel to do so — it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.

During these visits, Ludlow “ made upon myself the trial of the effects of every strange drug and chemical which the laboratory could produce .” A few months before, Bayard Taylor ’ s Putnam ’ s Magazine article The Vision of Hasheesh had been devoured by Ludlow, and so when the cannabis-based tetanus remedy called Tilden ’ s extract came out he had to try some.

By the mid-1950s Putnam was one of the most sought-after engineer-producers in the United States, and Universal Recording had become so successful that clients including Nelson Riddle, Mitch Miller and Quincy Jones began urging him to open a facility on the west coast.

In 1841, Putnam went to London, UK where he set up a branch office, the first American company ever to do so.

In 1863 when Herbert Adams was 4 yrs old, he moved to Fitchburg so his father could take a job at the Putnam Machine Co. His family purchased a home on 26 Chestnut St.

Although Shelton's version is cherished by some, according to John Ormsby and Samuel Putnam, it was far from satisfactory as a carrying over of Cervantes's text.

Putnam also says that television and urban sprawl have had a significant role in making America far less ' connected '.

The major labels approached Putnam hoping to buy the stereo tape stockpile, but he struck a far more lucrative deal, in which the labels repaid him for the ( far more expensive ) studio time he had used in making the stereo mixes.

However, the canny Putnam cleverly negotiated a far more lucrative deal, whereby he was recompensed for the ( much more expensive ) studio time used in mixing the stereo versions.

Putnam say ’ s “… beyond a doubt that social connectedness is one of the most powerful determinates of our well being .” In particular it is face to face connections which have been show to have greater impacts then non-face to face relationships.

In his introduction to The Portable Cervantes, Samuel Putnam, a noted translator of Cervantes ' novel, calls Avellaneda's version " one of the most disgraceful performances in history ".

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

What future translator Samuel Putnam called " the prevailing slapstick quality of this work, especially where Sancho Panza is involved, the obtrusion of the obscene where it is found in the original, and the slurring of difficulties through omissions or expanding upon the text " all made the Motteux version irresponsible.

Novel version The Missing Man was published by Putnam in 1975.

He executed many translations from the French language, and a version ( 1687 ) of Don Quixote, which has been called by Quixote translator Samuel Putnam the worst English translation ever made of the famous novel.

In 1854 Samuel Putnam Avery published a version called " Crow Eating " in his collection Mrs. Parkington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.

The latest version is called the computational theory of mind, associated with philosophers Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor.

" Putnam argues that what counts as an object cannot be determined objectively but rather only relative to someone's interests, therefore the true number of objects in the world will change relative to whose interests we have in sight.

Later Putnam suggested that while Gödel's theorems cannot be applied to humans, since they make mistakes and are therefore inconsistent, it may be applied to the human faculty of science or mathematics in general.

Hence Putnam cannot embrace realism without embracing classical logic, and hence his argument to endorse quantum logic because of realism about quanta is a hopeless case.

* Brains in a vat philosophical argument against the idea that we could be in cyberspace and not know it by Hilary Putnam

Critics of the view have questioned the original thought experiments saying that the lessons that Putnam and later writers such as Tyler Burge ( 1979, 1982 ) have urged us to draw can be resisted.

In 1891, Putnam resigned his Minneapolis post due to his mother-in-law ’ s ill health, and promptly returned to Boston to be near her.

John Russell Young died in January 1899, and “ President William McKinley found himself faced with the responsibility of appointing a Librarian of Congress who should preside over the affairs of the institution whose building had been completed but years ago .” President McKinley requested Herbert Putnam to be appointed to the task, and Putnam was officially confirmed to the duties of Librarian of Congress on December 12, 1899.

Upon the confirmation of Putnam to his appointed duty of Librarian of Congress, one daunting task Putnam faced from the onset was the sheer volume of materials that had to be reorganized for the newly opened Thomas Jefferson Building – the newly appointed library for the Library of Congress.

However, Putnam was well aware of what needed to be done.

It was clear Putnam was not willing to withdraw completely from the world of librarianship, stating “ I would willingly surrender the administration, if that course would serve the interest of the library and I could feel assured as to my successor .” Putnam provided the suggestion of “ Librarian Emeritus ” be developed as his new official title, with an honorarium of one-half of his original salary.

Putnam suggested that social capital would facilitate co-operation and mutually supportive relations in communities and nations and would therefore be a valuable means of combating many of the social disorders inherent in modern societies, for example crime.

Putnam believes that social capital can be measured by the amount of trust and " reciprocity " in a community or between individuals.

This argument, associated with Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam, is considered by Stephen Yablo to be one of the most challenging arguments in favor of the acceptance of the existence of abstract mathematical entities, such as numbers and sets.

The tradition describes Putnam crawling into a den with a torch, a musket, and his feet secured with rope, in order to be quickly pulled out.

Recently a mural depicting General Putnam was to be returned to the newly renovated Hamilton Avenue School in Greenwich, CT. An article of April 1, 2006, entitled " Mural deemed too violent for school ", explains the mural's reception:

On April 4, 1966, Putnam announced there would be a name-the-team contest.

Compiled by her husband GP Putnam after she disappeared over the Pacific, many historians consider this book to be only partially Earhart's original work.

The area around Putnam Lake was divided into 11, 000 plots, each, which were to be occupied by summer cottages, general stores, restaurants, gas stations, dance pavilions, and taverns.

In May 1952, Memorial Field, to be dedicated to the Putnam Lake casualties of World War II, was proposed to replace the swimming pool, which had not been used since the early 1930s because it was contaminated with seepage and infested with leeches.

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.

* Physical Description: Silver-white hair, grey eyes ( though stated to be brown on page 17 of the Ace / Putnam 1990 hardcover edition ), and a petite figure.

Gridley is widely to be understood as one of the most distinguished military characters of New England, renowned for personal bravery, skilled artillerist, a scientific engineer, and a contemporary of Prescott and Putnam and Knox, of Warren and Washington.

On August 9, 1776, he was promoted to be one of the four new major generals and was put in command of the Continental Army troops on Long Island ; he chose the place for fortifications, and built the redoubts and entrenchments of Fort Putnam ( the site of current day Fort Greene Park ) east of Brooklyn Heights.