Re-examining Russell's Paralysis: Ramified Type-Theory and Wittgenstein's Objection to Russell's Theory of Judgment

Stevens, Graham

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“…First of all, though I agree that the premise alluded to in the June letter refers to a significance constraint on judgements of more or less the sort specified in *13.3a above (though, as we shall see below, certain formal adjustments are required), I nevertheless reject the idea that Wittgenstein thought this significance constraint to be problematical due to a supposed incompatibility with the ramified theory of types. On this point, I defer to Graham Stevens (, ), who has convincingly argued that the objection, so understood, misconstrues the true nature of the relationship between the multiple relation theory and ramified type theory. But it would be a mistake to write off the standard reading altogether, in light of this fact…”

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Russell and Wittgenstein on Logical Form and Judgement: What did Wittgenstein Try that Wouldn't Work?

Connelly

2013

Theoria

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In this article, I pay special expository attention to two pieces of philosophically relevant Wittgenstein–Russell correspondence from the period leading up to the ultimate demise of Russell's Theory of Knowledge manuscript (in June 1913). This is done in the hopes of shedding light on Wittgenstein's notoriously obscure criticisms of Russell's multiple relation theory of judgement. I argue that these two pieces of correspondence (the first, a letter from Wittgenstein to Russell dated January 1913, and the second, a letter from Russell to Ottoline Morrell, reporting a tense confrontation with Wittgenstein on 26 May 1913) each refer to what is more or less the same approach to problems concerning the unity and well‐formedness of propositions or judgements. However, the view advanced in Wittgenstein's January letter to Russell nevertheless differs in a key respect from the view of Russell's referred to in the May letter to Morrell. The difference involves Wittgenstein's incorporating qualities and relations as unsaturated parts of the copulae of atomic complexes, where these copulae are in turn conceived as logical forms. Because such an approach to logical form (and more specifically, to relations) was philosophically unpalatable to Russell, he undertook an alternative theoretical correction in the context of his 1913 Theory of Knowledge manuscript. This theoretical correction was discussed with Wittgenstein during the tense confrontation on 26 May, and involved deploying a supplemental significance constraint on judgements. It was this significance constraint on judgements, moreover, which was the ‘premiss’ alluded to by Wittgenstein in the context of a June 1913 letter to Russell, wherein he claims to express his objection to Russell's theory ‘exactly.’

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Russell and Wittgenstein on Logical Form and Judgement: What did Wittgenstein Try that Wouldn't Work?

Connelly

2013

Theoria

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“…However, (a) it speaks against Griffin's interpretation that Russell did actually appeal to type theoretic considerations to bolster the multiple relation theory of judgment after receiving Wittgenstein's criticism. It is, anyway, (b) independently doubtful that Russell ever intended the theory of judgment to perform the role of an epistemological foundation (see Weiss 1995;Stevens 2003;and Hanks 2007 for reservations about Griffin's interpretation along these lines). Moreover, (c) the textual grounds for attributing such an involved concern with the theory of types to Wittgenstein are slim.…”

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Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology

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2013

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“…When I wish to refer indifferently to both, I will use 'TLP. ' 2 For more detailed discussion of the scholarly controversy concerning Wittgenstein's objections and their effects on Russell, see Connelly (2011Connelly ( -12, 2014Connelly ( , 2015), Pincock (2008), Hanks (2007), and Stevens (2003Stevens ( , 2004.…”

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On Wittgenstein's transcendental deductions

Connelly¹

2017

Belgrade Philosop Ann

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In this paper, I aim to shed light on the use of transcendental deductions, within demonstrations of aspects of Wittgenstein's early semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics. I focus on two crucial claims introduced by Wittgenstein within these transcendental deductions, each identified in conversation with Desmond Lee in 1930-31. Specifically, the claims are of the logical independence of elementary propositions, and that infinity is a number. I show how these two, crucial claims are both demonstrated and subsequently deployed by Wittgenstein within a series of transcendental deductions, a series which begins with extensionalism as a generalized condition of sense on propositions, and in the context of which are then derived various, further, significant and unobvious presuppositions generated by that generalized condition of sense. In addition to clearing up deductions of these two, aforementioned claims, I also elucidate deductions of the subsistence of objects, and of logical space as an infinite totality.

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Re-examining Russell's Paralysis: Ramified Type-Theory and Wittgenstein's Objection to Russell's Theory of Judgment

Cited by 9 publications

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Russell and Wittgenstein on Logical Form and Judgement: What did Wittgenstein Try that Wouldn't Work?

Russell and Wittgenstein on Logical Form and Judgement: What did Wittgenstein Try that Wouldn't Work?

Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology

On Wittgenstein's transcendental deductions

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