Seeing that nearly all the words to be found in the dictionary stand for universals, it is strange that hardly anybody except students of philosophy ever realizes that there are such things as universals. We do not naturally dwell upon those words in a sentence which do not stand for particulars; and if we are forced to dwell upon a word which stands for a universal, we naturally think of it as standing for some one of the particulars that come under the universal.
—Bertand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (Oxford Univ. Press, 1959)
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9.28.2010
8.24.2006
substitution of terms
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
—Bertrand Russell (1872-1969), Mysticism and Logic
Poetics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
—Bertrand Russell (1872-1969), Mysticism and Logic
Poetics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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