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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth

14176	"The death of Caesar is true" is not the same proposition as "Caesar died" [Russell]
	Full Idea: "The death of Caesar is true" is not, I think, the same proposition as "Caesar died".
	From: Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §478)
	A reaction: I suspect that it was this remark which provoked Ramsey into rebellion, because he couldn't see the difference. Nowadays we must talk first of conversational implicature, and then of language and metalanguage.