"His ability charitably to “summarise” the inchoate and/or confused thoughts of his interlocutors was legendary: Lipton invariably said what you wished you had meant."
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Peter Lipton
(October 9, 1954 – November 25, 2007) was an American philosopher, and the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and a fellow of King's College.
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