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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

2352	The job of the philosopher is to distinguish facts about the world from conventions [Putnam]
	Full Idea: It is the job of the philosopher to distinguish what is fact and what is convention in our theorising about the world.
	From: Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], §7 p.112)
	A reaction: This may well be the entire truth about philosophy. It begins with the Nomos-Physis debate in ancient Athens, and it turns out to be the key issue in almost every area of metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics and morality.