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Why did Bertrand Russell care so much about the meaning of the word "the"?

3 pointsby Gormisdomai3 months ago

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overu5893 months ago
Bertrand Russell saught to be an intellectual of integrity. And as many of his substance knows that our every presupposition is a self serving lie. Only by tracing simple truths may we form conceptual palaces with tenable foundations.<p>Articulating these most primitive conjectures give us the very language and dispositions for comparing and calibrating what comes of communicating among minds.<p>Principles and relationships are why.
zfg3 months ago
Because he was bored after he proved 1 + 1 = 2:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.storyofmathematics.com&#x2F;20th_russell.html&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.storyofmathematics.com&#x2F;20th_russell.html&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Principia_Mathematica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Principia_Mathematica</a>