[Fwd: Re: book: wittgenstein's poker]

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Oct 30 06:33:59 PST 2001


Charles Jannuzi wrote:
>
>
> >>When Russell and Wittgenstein were hot on >>the topic, the term 'logical
> atomism' was used >>a lot Russell (though not an empirical >>scientist) made
> appeal to 'direct
> >>acquaintance' for getting at the 'atomic units' >>of meaning.
>
> >Whatever made anything that acquaibtance >has anything to do with empirical
> >science?
>
When fine philosophical issues are at stake it wouldn't hurt to proofread and to give attention to 'schoolmarm' grammar. What in the hell does "a lot Russell...made" mean?


:-)

Carrol



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