On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:45:09 +0100 "rasherrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks Jim > > I have been reading On Denoting and stuff related to it. > But how does this apply to defining what is and is not science? How > do we > deal with scientific statements particularly sentences. Do we > analyse them > as we do "The present king of France is bald." And do we do this to > every > sentence in a scientific work or what?
Many of the logical positivists proposed to do exactly that. The idea being to marry Russell's method of logical analysis which he had first outlined in "On Denoting" with an extreme verificationism (which involved not just a verfication theory of truth but also a verification theory of meaning. In fact some of the positvists seemed to consider the logical analysis of scientific propositions to be close to the sum total of legitimate philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/enseignants/pe/Engel%202005%20Russell%20s%20In quiry%20into%20Meaning%20and%20Truth.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(linguistic)#Bertrand_Russell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#Analytic_philosophy http://daniel.cohnitz.de/download.php?d41747e60573503029d688f3267cc6cf > > Paddy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Farmelant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:49 AM > Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic > > > > Also see these posts on Marxmail from > ten years ago: > > http://www.marxmail.org/archives/may98/journal_am.htm > > Jim F. > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:18:32 +0100 "rasherrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > Interesting intro Charles. Much appreciated > > > > Paddy > > -------------------------------------------- > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu> > > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:39 PM > > Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic > > > > > > Theory of descriptions > > > > Jump to: navigation, search > > The theory of descriptions is one of the philosopher Bertrand > > Russell's most > > significant contributions to the philosophy of language. It is > also > > termed > > Russell's Theory of Descriptions (often abbreviated as RTD). In > > short, > > Russell argued that the superficial syntactic form of > descriptions > > (phrases > > usually of the form "The X" and "An X") is misleading, as it does > > not match > > their logical or semantic structure. While descriptions may seem > > fairly > > insignificant phrases, Russell and others have argued that > providing > > a > > satisfactory analysis of their linguistic and logical properties > is > > vital to > > clarity in important philosophical debates, particularly in > > semantics, > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
