Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...logician is interested not in what symbols mean, but in how they mean," Mr. Russell said. "Though there may be universes in which it is possible, we cannot justify inductive logic. And deductive logic depends on symbols having meaning...
Bertrand Russell last night held for an hour the attention of an audience which packed the New Lecture Hall to standing capacity as he expounded his view that "logic can be studied entirely without attention to psychology, since you can know that two propositions have the same meaning without knowing what that meaning is; but that, if meaning be analyzed, it will probably find its definition lying in the field of behavioristic psychology...
...speaker stressed that the three fields, logic, psychology, and epistemology must be kept distinct. He was introduced, and his lecture was amusingly epitomized by Professor A. N. Whitehead, who termed the greatest of the missing Platonic dialogues the "Dialogue of Bertrand Russell...
...abstract words of logical propositions are more free of vagueness, perhaps in virtue of having no meaning at all. You can keep logic pure by keeping it in a world by itself. It is when you start to apply it that you run into trouble. Logic is concerned with a transformation of symbols, not with how people think...
...speaker, who discussed the effect of the depression on morals in Ford Hall Forum last night, will be introduced by Professor A. N. Whitehead. A former student of Professor Whitehead's, Russell collaborated with him in the production of "Principia Mathematica", the accepted exposition of logic, which purports to have "arrived at the front door of cardinal arithmetic...