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-<big>''From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again''</big><br>
+{{a|book review|}}{{br|From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again}} — {{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br>
-{{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br>
+{{quote|''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.''
-<small>''Reproduced via the The [[Jolly Contrarian]] {{t|book review}} service''</small> <br>
+:- {{author|Richard Rorty}}, {{br|Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity}} }}
+==On how to philosophise with a hammer==
-====On how to philosophise with a hammer====
-{{c|Book review}}
-:''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.''
-::- {{author|Richard Rorty}}, {{br|Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity}} <br>
 {{author|Daniel Dennett}} has a knack for a pithy aphorism. He writes technical philosophy in clear, lively prose which invites engagement from enthusiastic amateurs like me. He is best known for 1995’s {{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}, an exposition about natural selection. Dennett’s insight was to present [[evolution]] as an algorithm: