Single Idea 6105

[catalogued under 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms]

Full Idea

Logical atomism is the view that you can get down in theory, if not in practice, to ultimate simples, out of which the world is built, and that those simples have a kind of reality not belonging to anything else.

Gist of Idea

Logical atoms aims to get down to ultimate simples, with their own unique reality

Source

Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], §VIII)

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'Russell's Logical Atomism', ed/tr. Pears,David [Fontana 1972], p.129


A Reaction

This dream is to empiricists what the Absolute is to rationalists - a bit silly, but an embodiment of the motivating dream.