Le complexe dénotant défini de Russell

Now getting back to vagueness, according to Russell (and many others), vagueness is ineliminable from our language. 9 Indeed, Rus- sell was perhaps the first to fully appreciate

According to the standard view, the causal process connecting a past representation and its subsequent recall involves intermediary memory traces (or engrams). The stipulation of

The fact that experiential memory is a form of acquaintance which provides us with our understanding of the past implies, for Russell, that such memory is a fundamental type

Les paradoxes exaspèrent le logicien : « ceux-ci m’apparaissaient presque comme un défi personnel et j’aurais, s’il l’eût fallu, passé tout le reste de ma vie à

resorts to personal memories and autobiographical elements without indulging in easy self-mythology… The result is a long, fascinating conversation with surprinsingly few

We should only know what is now present to our senses: we could not know anything about the past -- not even that there was a past -- nor could we know any truths about

Nous n’avons pas de meilleure façon de le décrire, mais évidemment il ne ressemble pas exactement à un bâton tordu (it does not look exactly like a bent stick), c’est-à-dire à

Et nous savons bien que même d’un point de vue donné, la couleur semblera autre sous une lumière artificielle, différente encore pour un daltonien ou pour un individu