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Single Idea 6113
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Full Idea
The way to mean a fact is to assert it; the way to mean a simple is to name it.
Clarification
'Simples' are his basic 'logical atoms' (see Idea 6114)
Gist of Idea
To mean facts we assert them; to mean simples we name them
Source
Bertrand Russell (Logical Atomism [1924], p.156)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Russell's Logical Atomism', ed/tr. Pears,David [Fontana 1972], p.156
A Reaction
Thus logical atomism is a linguistic programme, of reducing our language to a foundation of pure names. The recent thought of McDowell and others is aimed at undermining any possibility of a 'simple' in perception. The myth of 'The Given'.
The
24 ideas
with the same theme
[reality built up from the smallest components of logic]:
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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