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Single Idea 21708
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Full Idea
Russell's new logical atomist ontology was of particulars, universals and facts, replacing the ontology of 'platonic atomism' consisting just of propositions.
Gist of Idea
Russell's new logical atomist was of particulars, universals and facts (not platonic propositions)
Source
report of Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918]) by Bernard Linsky - Russell's Metaphysical Logic 1
Book Ref
Linsky,Bernard: 'Russell's Metaphysical Logic' [CSLI 1999], p.12
A Reaction
Linsky cites Peter Hylton as saying that the earlier view was never replaced. The earlier view required propositions to be 'unified'. I surmise that the formula 'Fa' combines a universal and a particular, to form an atomic fact. [...but Idea 6111!]
Related Idea
Idea 6111
As propositions can be put in subject-predicate form, we wrongly infer that facts have substance-quality form [Russell]
The
24 ideas
with the same theme
[reality built up from the smallest components of logic]:
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12502
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Comparisons boil down to simple elements of sensation or reflection
[Locke]
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21684
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Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts
[Russell]
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10968
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Russell gave up logical atomism because of negative, general and belief propositions
[Russell, by Read]
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6113
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To mean facts we assert them; to mean simples we name them
[Russell]
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6114
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'Simples' are not experienced, but are inferred at the limits of analysis
[Russell]
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21722
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Better to construct from what is known, than to infer what is unknown
[Russell]
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6419
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In 1899-1900 I adopted the philosophy of logical atomism
[Russell]
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6438
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Complex things can be known, but not simple things
[Russell]
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21708
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Russell's new logical atomist was of particulars, universals and facts (not platonic propositions)
[Russell, by Linsky,B]
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19051
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Russell's atomic facts are actually compounds, and his true logical atoms are sense data
[Russell, by Quine]
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6089
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Logical atomism aims at logical atoms as the last residue of analysis
[Russell]
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6100
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Once you have enumerated all the atomic facts, there is a further fact that those are all the facts
[Russell]
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6105
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Logical atoms aims to get down to ultimate simples, with their own unique reality
[Russell]
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21681
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Given all true atomic propositions, in theory every other truth can thereby be deduced
[Russell]
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23472
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The sense of propositions relies on the world's basic logical structure
[Wittgenstein]
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23463
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Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions
[Wittgenstein]
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7090
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The 'Tractatus' is an extreme example of 'Logical Atomism'
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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23464
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In atomic facts the objects hang together like chain links
[Wittgenstein]
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23471
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The structure of an atomic fact is how its objects combine; this possibility is its form
[Wittgenstein]
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21682
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If a proposition is elementary, no other elementary proposition contradicts it
[Wittgenstein]
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22319
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Analysis must end in elementary propositions, which are combinations of names
[Wittgenstein]
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21683
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Nothing can be inferred from an elementary proposition
[Wittgenstein]
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18385
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Logical atomism builds on the simple properties, but are they the only possible properties?
[Armstrong]
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18475
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Russell allows some complex facts, but Wittgenstein only allows atomic facts
[MacBride]
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