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.
Gist of Idea
Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts
Source
Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], p.48)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Our Knowledge of the External World' [Routledge 1993], 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.
Related Idea
Idea 21683 Nothing can be inferred from an elementary proposition [Wittgenstein]