Who Influenced Bertrand Russell? The Right Honourable The Earl Russell OM FRS Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of Chicago, UCLA Academic advisorsJames Ward A. N. Whitehead Doctoral students Ludwig Wittgenstein Other notable students Raphael Demos Who taught Bertrand Russell? The Right Honourable The Earl Russell OM FRS Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge,
What Is The Problem With Logical Positivism? One of the main objections raised by critics of positivism is an accusation of inconsistency; its fundamental principles, in fact, are propositions obviously not empirically verifiable and equally obviously not tautological. What killed logical positivism? Karl Popper in his autobiography (Popper, 1986) takes the credit for ‘killing’ logical
What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said? Showing cannot be stated: “what can be shown, cannot be said” (Tractatus 4.1212). … In the Tractatus Logic underlies language (4.12). The basic ‘experience’ which underlies logic is, according to 5.552, “not that something or other is the state of things, but that something is”, which is the