Putnam, Hilary

"Multiple realizability shows mind is not identical to brain."

"Supervenience does not imply reduction."

"Emergence is real and not merely epistemic."

"The structure of thought mirrors the structure of experience."

"Context determines content in natural language."

"Reference is not a simple dyadic relation."

"Words achieve meaning through networks of beliefs."

"Rationality has a history and cannot be transcendental."

"Mathematics is not discovered but invented within conceptual schemes."

"Logical laws are not universally binding, only contextually valid."

"The principle of charity in interpretation is methodologically necessary."

"Indeterminacy of translation shows translation goes beyond substitution."

"Being is not independent of all conceptual schemes."

"Ontological relativity means 'what exists' depends on our framework."

"Causation itself is a human projection onto experience."

"The phenomenal concept strategy cannot solve the hard problem."

"Qualia collapse into functional roles upon scrutiny."

"The zombie argument begs the question against functionalism."

"Realism about mathematics requires platonism we cannot justify."

"Numbers are nothing but useful fictions for science."

"Nominalism in mathematics leads to revisionism about logic itself."

"Semantics is holistic; no word has meaning in isolation."

"The analytic-synthetic distinction was a dogma of empiricism."

"All our knowledge rests on conventions and pragmatic interests."

"Truth pluralism avoids the correspondence theory's pitfalls."

"Deflationism about truth captures what matters practically."

"Coherence in belief justifies, not correspondence to facts."

"Foundationalism requires an infinite regress or circularity."

"Epistemic justification is always relative to a conceptual system."

"Knowledge requires both belief and reliability, not correspondence."