le cauchemar de Moore

                                                               An Edwardian table

                                                                    A truth table


Moore had a nightmare once in which he could not distinguish propositions from tables. But even when he was awake, he could not distinguish love and beauty and truth from the furniture. They took on the same definition of outline, the same stable, solid, objective qualities and common-sense reality.

                                                                       J.M. Keynes: My Early Beliefs.    

Je crois que le Mont Blanc lui même, malgré tous ses champs de neige, est partie constituante de ce qui est véritablement affirmé dans la proposition « le Mont Blanc fait plus de 4000 m de haut ».

                                                             Lettre de Russell à Frege du 12/12/1904

                     

 

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