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Philosophy of Science and Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Wolfgang Yourgrau
Wolfgang Yourgrau
Affiliation:
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, U.S.A
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Robert Oppenheimer tells the story about a group of Bible scholars who practised exegesis with grim determination. A visitor, admiring so much earnest learning, inquired whether they did not find certain texts supremely difficult. Answered one Bible student: “Indeed—but what we do not understand we explain to one another.”

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Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 35 , Issue 133 , April 1960, pp. 147 - 151
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1960

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