Putnam, Hilary

"The reliabilist account of knowledge survives Gettier problems."

"Contextualism explains how knowledge attributions can shift."

"The social construction of reality is inescapable and not pernicious."

"What counts as a fact depends on our purposes and practices."

"Naturalizing intentionality requires abandoning strict physicalism."

"Mental content supervenes on physical states only locally."

"The extended mind thesis shows cognition includes the environment."

"Embodied cognition proves mind cannot be separated from body."

"Distributed cognition is more fundamental than individual consciousness."

"Language acquisition is partly social and partly biological."

"Understanding requires imaginative projection into another's perspective."

"Empathy is foundational to epistemology and ethics."

"Justice requires respecting the rational autonomy of others."

"Rights are normative constraints on how we may treat people."

"Democracy requires not just voting but meaningful participation."

"Education aims at developing human capacities for thought."

"Learning is not passive reception but active construction."

"Wisdom combines knowledge with judgment about what matters."

"The examined life requires questioning our deepest assumptions."

"The mind is not a mirror, it is an instrument that shapes reality through interpretation."

"To say that something is true is to say that it would be believed at the ideal limit of inquiry."

"We are not passive observers of reality; we are active participants in its construction."

"The problem of meaning cannot be solved by looking inside the head."

"Reason is not some faculty that stands outside the world; it is part of the world itself."

"The idea of an absolute, perspective-independent reality is incoherent."

"Language is not a code that mirrors nature; it is a tool we use to navigate the world."

"To understand a concept is to understand its role in a form of life."

"Meaning is not intrinsic; it emerges from our practices and purposes."

"The dichotomy between mind and world is a false problem."

"We cannot step outside our conceptual schemes to see reality as it is in itself."