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Single Idea 12502
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms
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Full Idea
All comparisons terminate in, and are concerned about those simple ideas, either of sensation or reflection; which I think to be the whole material of all our knowledge.
Gist of Idea
Comparisons boil down to simple elements of sensation or reflection
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 2.25.09)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.323
A Reaction
This seems to be an ancestor of logical atomism. Hume is inclined to make his 'atoms' strictly empirical (as 'impressions'), but Locke also allows simples of reflection, which may be a priori conceptual atoms.
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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