Goodman

Famous quotes containing the word goodman:

    “Always and everywhere children take an active role in the construction and acquisition of learning and understanding. To learn is a satisfying experience, but also, as the psychologist Nelson Goodman tells us, to understand is to experience desire, drama, and conquest.”
    —Carolyn Edwards (20th century)

    “I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
    since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
    present twelve o’clock at midnight.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Rather—speaking loosely and without trying to answer either Pilate’s question or Tarski’s—a version is to be taken to be true when it offends no unyielding beliefs and none of its own precepts.”
    —Nelson Goodman (b. 1906)