17th December 2009
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The authentic scientific description was for [Leonard] Savage always operational, mathematical and mechanical, never merely verbal. His outlook was close to the logical positivists. In his wn work the role of concepts and words was to describe actual or contemplated operations that are used to define mathematical symbols, but the words or concepts had no particular importance in themselves. He wanted to get on with a description of technical details.
— Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims. 1991. MIT Press. London, England 93
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