Putnam, Hilary - The many faces of realism

When I wrote Reason, Truth and History, I described my purpose as breaking the stranglehold which a number of dichotomies have on our thinking, chief among them the dichotomy between 'objective' and 'subjective' views of truth and reason. I described my view thus (p. xi): "I shall advance a view in which the mind does not simply 'copy' a world which admits description by One True Theory. But my view is not a view in which the mind makes up the world (or makes it up subject to constraints imposed by 'methodological canons' and mind-independent 'sensedata'). If one must use metaphorical language, then let the metaphor be this: the mind and the world jointly make up the mind and the world."