ABSTRACT
Ruth Anna Putnam's profound essay does not simply get my principal views about values and facts right; it “pulls them together” in a way I have not done myself up to now. In particular, her rational reconstruction (for that is what it is) of what I have written about the importance of moral images of the world in ethics and in life is not just a restatement of what I have written, but a statement of what I should have written on this topic, and I am profoundly grateful for it, as for so much that she has given me in the course of the more than a half century since we met at a luncheon in honor of Rudolf Carnap in August of 1960.
