In an essay, this man distinguished between primary and secondary readings of a phrase in order to resolve the problem of negative existentials, such as a statement regarding "the present king of France."
In an essay, this man distinguished between primary and secondary readings of a phrase in order to resolve the problem of negative existentials, such as a statement regarding "the present king of France." This thinker developed a theory according to which the world is made of independently existing atomic facts, a theory later used by his student. GÃ¶del's incompleteness theorem proved futile this man's attempts to create a complete logical basis for all of mathematics in a collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, the Principia Mathematica. For 10 points, name this British logician and analytic philosopher who taught Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In an essay, this man distinguished between primary and secondary readings of a phrase in order to resolve the problem of negative existentials, such as a statement regarding "the present king of France."
Bertrand Russell [or Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell]