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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms

21684	Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts [Russell]
	Full Idea: Perhaps one atomic fact may sometimes be capable of being inferred from another, though I do not believe this to be the case; but in any case it cannot be inferred from premises no one of which is an atomic fact.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], p.48)
	A reaction: I prefer Russell's caution to Wittgenstein's dogmatism. I presume utterly simple facts give you nothing to work with. Hegel thought that you could infer new concepts from given concepts.