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- Subject: Re: what can't be verified/falsified in
- Message-ID: <10292320.76128.6119@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- From: Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz (Hakki Kocabas)
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:08:48 GMT
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- > In article <10292320.14832.21064@kcbbs.gen.nz> Hakki_Kocabas@kcbbs.gen.nz
- > (Hakki Kocabas) writes:
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- > >Oh Bogey's Messenger Russell ! tell us the truth ! for Bogey's sake !
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- > Actually Wittgenstein would never have made the bizarre mistake of
- > assuming that Russell held that "what cannot be verified or falsified
- > is meaningless". Imitating Wittgenstein's style is all well and good,
- > but why not pay some attention to the issues as well?
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- Torkel, you are right, Russell didn't receive such a revelation from
- Bogey. But then don't believe half of the sentences you read on the net...
- and the other half might be distorted by line noise...
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