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<big>''From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again''</big><br> | |||
{{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br> | |||
First published on [https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/26 September 2017 Amazon] on How to philosophise with a hammer. <br> | |||
<small>''Reproduced via the The [[Jolly Contrarian]] {{t|book review}} service''</small> <br> | |||
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:''Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own, unaided by the describing activities of humans, cannot.'' | :''Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own, unaided by the describing activities of humans, cannot.'' | ||