Ideas of B Russell/AN Whitehead, by Theme

[British, fl. 1912, Professors at Cambridge. Collaborators during 1910-1913.]

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4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 2. Tools of Propositional Logic / e. Axioms of PL
9542 The best known axiomatization of PL is Whitehead/Russell, with four axioms and two rules [Hughes/Cresswell]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility
21720 Russell saw Reducibility as legitimate for reducing classes to logic [Linsky,B]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory
10044 Russell denies extensional sets, because the null can't be a collection, and the singleton is just its element [Shapiro]
18208 We regard classes as mere symbolic or linguistic conveniences
5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 7. Strict Implication
8204 Lewis's 'strict implication' preserved Russell's confusion of 'if...then' with implication [Quine]
9359 Russell's implication means that random sentences imply one another [Lewis,CI]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic
21707 Russell unusually saw logic as 'interpreted' (though very general, and neutral) [Linsky,B]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic
10036 In 'Principia' a new abstract theory of relations appeared, and was applied [Gödel]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts
18248 A real number is the class of rationals less than the number [Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / a. Defining numbers
18152 Russell takes numbers to be classes, but then reduces the classes to numerical quantifiers [Bostock]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
8683 Russell and Whitehead were not realists, but embraced nearly all of maths in logic [Friend]
10025 Russell and Whitehead took arithmetic to be higher-order logic [Hodes]
10037 'Principia' lacks a precise statement of the syntax [Gödel]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory
10093 The ramified theory of types used propositional functions, and covered bound variables [George/Velleman]
8691 The Russell/Whitehead type theory was limited, and was not really logic [Friend]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
10305 In 'Principia Mathematica', logic is exceeded in the axioms of infinity and reducibility, and in the domains [Bernays]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism
8684 Russell and Whitehead consider the paradoxes to indicate that we create mathematical reality [Friend]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism
8746 To avoid vicious circularity Russell produced ramified type theory, but Ramsey simplified it [Shapiro]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
12033 An object is identical with itself, and no different indiscernible object can share that [Adams,RM]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
10040 Russell showed, through the paradoxes, that our basic logical intuitions are self-contradictory [Gödel]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement
21725 The multiple relations theory says assertions about propositions are about their ingredients [Linsky,B]
23474 A judgement is a complex entity, of mind and various objects
23455 The meaning of 'Socrates is human' is completed by a judgement
23480 The multiple relation theory of judgement couldn't explain the unity of sentences [Morris,M]
18275 Only the act of judging completes the meaning of a statement
19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
23453 Propositions as objects of judgement don't exist, because we judge several objects, not one