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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

"An inquiry into Meaning and Truth" by Bertrand Russell,1940


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Empirical knowledge has its basis in percepts -sense experiences- ;
from basic propositions about percepts empirical knowledge is constructed.
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Although basic propositions are not indubitably true,
as propositions of the utmost particularity,
referring to percepts,
they are the most dependable propositions of empirical inquiry.
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Empirical knowledge requires provision for general statements,
for stating logical relationships,and for modes of inference.
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Propositions are both objective and subjective ;
they are objective in that they indicate factually,
and they are subjective in that they express the state of mind of the speaker
-belief,denial,or doubt-.
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Sentences are true if what they indicate is the case ;
to know a sentence to be true one must perceive its verifier
-the event the sentence indicates-.
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