Hilary

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Definition of Hilary in English English dictionary: A male given name; A female given name; {i} female first name; given name, female; given name, male
Hilary Putnam: born July 31, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. philosopher. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1951 he taught at Northwestern University, Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard. Early in his career he was a defender of scientific realism. In the 1960s he extended the causal theory of reference to natural-kind and other scientific terms. He is known as the originator of functionalism in the philosophy of mind, though he later rejected that approach (see philosophy of language). Beginning in the mid-1970s he gradually abandoned his earlier scientific realism in favour of a pragmatically oriented view he called "internal realism." According to this view, scientific theories are not true absolutely but only relative to large-scale conceptual schemes. Among his many works are Philosophical Papers (3 vol., 1975-83), Reason, Truth, and History (1981), and Pragmatism (1995)
hilary term: {i} (in the past) one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England
hilary term: Hilary, January 13th
hilary term: Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; so called from the festival of St

Hilary

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Hil·a·ry

hîlıri

/ˈhələrē/ /ˈhɪlɜriː/

() From Latin Hilarius, name of a fourth century saint, meaning cheerful, happy, and from its feminine form Hilaria.

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