Single Idea 6436

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory]

Full Idea

My original use of classes was gradually more and more replaced by properties, and in the end disappeared except as a symbolic convenience.

Gist of Idea

I gradually replaced classes with properties, and they ended as a symbolic convenience

Source

Bertrand Russell (My Philosophical Development [1959], Ch.14)

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'My Philosophical Development' [Routledge 1993], p.117


A Reaction

I wish I knew what properties are. On the whole, though, I agree with this, because it is more naturalistic. We may place things in classes because of their properties, and this means there are natural classes, but classes can't have a life of their own.