ONT Re: Russell -- Philosophy Of Logical Atomism
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POLA. Note 3
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| 1. Facts and Propositions (cont.)
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| The reason that I call my doctrine 'logical' atomism is because
| the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue
| in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of
| them will be what I call "particulars" -- such things as little
| patches of colour or sounds, momentary things -- and some of them
| will be predicates or relations and so on. The point is that the
| atom I wish to arrive at is the atom of logical analysis, not the
| atom of physical analysis.
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| Russell, POLA, p. 37.
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| Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism", pp. 35-155
| in 'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism', edited with an introduction
| by David Pears, Open Court, La Salle, IL, 1985. First published 1918.
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