James Putnam

James Putnam may refer to:

  • James Putnam (judge) (1725–1789), last Attorney General in Massachusetts before American Revolution; judge and politician in New Brunswick
  • James Putnam (politician) (1756–1838), politician in Nova Scotia
  • James O. Putnam (1818–1903), New York politician

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or putnam:

    Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    Cut the pie any way you like, “meanings” just ain’t in the head!
    —Hilary Putnam (b. 1926)