Bertrand Russell was born in Wales, UK in 1872. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He went on to become an author and scholar known for his work in mathematics, logic, philosophy, linguistics, and much more. Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1950.
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Record 10 Side A Audio Transcription - Bertrand RussellTranscribed by Microsoft Word Murders cannot be defined also. Where quality can be defined syntactically, but you won't like the definitions. Quality. Is what in my system feels syntactical purposes that have been fulfilled given by. Substance. And it can be defined in this way. If you take. Atomic sentences say sentences that do not contain and or or if or or some or not or any of those words. If you take atomic sentences. They will. You will be able to distinguish them. First, simply stop one term and a pre D. The next two terms into dyadic relation. Next three terms and triadic relation and so on, adding an item. Now a term which can occur in any sentence of any one of these different forms. In what I call a quality. I. I said you wouldn't take it. OK. This will be finished. Let me see. Must be more questions surely. Yes. I'd like to ask. Still go first mathematical discourse or scientific discourse again. Suppose you want to give me again in text mode. Don't talk to me. Our thanks are necessary that. Well, because I think mathematics wants an extensional language, and other departments need to. Languages such as somewhat more intentional, but I don't think you can do mathematics entirely by. You certainly can't if you're going to allow any kind of. Internet connection. An infinite collection can't be enumerated and must be. Expressed by some kind of predicate, I mean say prime numbers or say square numbers or any number, any arrangement you would like to say of that sort, if you're going to have any infinite classes in your mathematics. And without infinite classical mathematics would get rather thin. Then you. Just have intensions because you cannot enumerate these classes. That's what I. Yeah. Oh yes, the ones used to know the English. Yeah. Very. Because have certain rhetorical. I mean, if you say nevertheless. You express astonishment. Orient. Say nothing. Ending already anything like. You expressed some emotion in addition to the connective. Thank you. Always detach the emotion. And in other ways connect you to consuming only languages. They are in non descending. Yeah. Well, I hope. Yes, I sincerely hope so. I don't know of any industry logic satisfies me. But I fully imagine the good I. It's. People who are young and make friends. Yeah. Find the battery in flashlight. Yeah. Parallelism theory. We had two other news interactions there. Remind me to buy eggs. Whether it's. Well, parallelistic theory I rejected because. It seemed to me to be paradoxical and recommended only by metaphysical argument, the argument that recommended it to the partisans was that they thought substances couldn't interact. Well, if you got rid of substances, that doesn't worry you much so that. Deals with that theory. The. Geo Electric as a city, there are two others you mentioned. Oh well, interaction, I admit. I mean that. Think that's a pain fact? Admit. And then there was a third. You went well. I don't know what you mean by identity. I mean that develop I think what? Agree with that. Yes, I might agree with that. If somebody would explain what they mean by the word ethic. It's a nasty word and I don't like it, but I think if it was explained, I might agree with them. Let me ask you about another line Russell Line. A good many people here are interested in ethics, and I wonder if you tell me how you verify ethical properties. And yeah. You see, if you're dealing with ethics, well, you've got first of all to consider. Whether you're dealing with a questionist means or a question as to ends, if you're dealing with a question as to means the verification is purely scientific. Suppose, for example, two people agree that it is better to be happy than to be miserable. And one man says the way to be happy is to get drunk every night. And another man says, I think on the whole you'll be happier if you were sober sometimes. Well. Let's purely scientific question. Verify easily enough. Juliette Conradian proper ethical question at all. Now then we. To rules of thumbnail such as. I cannot steal the thing, but. OK. In that I think if you will grant an end. And you have you will not be served if everybody's being. But if doing as then I don't see what verification can be. Is a good. Is that who has to win? But when they are, I don't see what. Can do about. I. Nietzsche, certainly different end to end from your. And I don't think. Attack. You need 5, you need 7. But I never knew. This is the reason. Ugly. Yeah. It will. Seriously, don't have any set of ends. At one time. In place. I. Factor drivers responsible for this. Might not have. Still planning on if I am. I. Think the fact is will be involved in the change and. Right. I don't quite see the point of your question. I mean, of course there are causes by one man likes one and another man likes another. And if you. The young you might as well. Up in. A way that they would agree. Having grown up having grown up. I don't. Would you mind explaining a little more what you mean? Pat talked about different things in but rather. Replay. To take an individual point of view, the particular advantage of an. That I had happened that you wouldn't think would be good for. Activities that people would like to be out for themselves or that they. Would like to be brought about. People choose change about these things. Yeah. By three. Yeah. Yes. Pretty well earns the fact that. People have thought over these things. In the sense of the. Public in other words. What is? Particular things make people change. Their minds? It's particularly direction. And why matter of achieving agreement? Particular Country Act from part of individual. You suggested I. Mean somebody might have said, well, I'm believing. Such and such a kind of society. This book. And now I don't know. Process of infinite by certain factors into the individual by a lot of. The world's. Yes. No, I see what you're at and I quite agree with you within actual fact the people. Unimaginative things can be changed, but they're not changed by anything that you can recognize as argument. They are often changed by what? To be argued. And the change may be affected because the man to whom it's. Best thing to argument? Argument in any proper sense of the word. It's. Psychological sweet. I mean, especially who greatly respect. Others and opinion the total force. You can do. Pay attention to it and think really quickly right on. This means greatly abominates and dishonours. Can you refrain that opinion? And of course, it's quite easy to use any given opinion as friends if you are the state to control the school. And. Easy. I don't mean to say for a moment if you can. The persuade people. Something on this matter? What I mean is. The architect region in these matters. Is not the sort of thing you use in a scientific question effect. It's. |
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