“Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.”

An Epistemological Nightmare (1982) http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/epistemologicalNightmare.html

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American mathematician 1919–2017

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