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Ideas for 'Space and Time', 'Our Knowledge of the External World' and 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements''

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

21586	The logical connectives are not objects, but are formal, and need a context [Russell]
	Full Idea: Such words as 'or' and 'not' are not names of definite objects, but are words that require a context in order to have a meaning. All of them are formal.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], 7)
	A reaction: [He cites Wittgenstein's 1922 Tractatus in a footnote - presumably in a later edition than 1914] This is the most famous idea which Russell acquired from Wittgenstein. It was yet another step in his scaling down of ontology.