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V 38
QuineVsRussell: there is a great confusion in Principia Mathematica(1) between use and mention of linguistic expressions: you do not know whether you are talking about the sign or its meaning.
>Mention/Use, >Use, >Meta language, >Object language.
VI 84
Incident/Mention/Use/Russell: "Scott has written Waverley": here, the name "Scott" does not appear in what I say. - What I say is about the person, not the name.
>Theory of descriptions.
Constituent element of a sentence: E.g. "the unicorn does not exist": "the unicorn" is not a constituent part (part of the reality, unicorn is not a part of a fact).
>Unicorn example.

1. Whitehead, A.N. and Russel, B. (1910). Principia Mathematica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Hauptwerke der Philosophie. 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 1992
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Use/mention/QuineVsRussell: in Principia Mathematica(1) there is a widespread confusion between use and mention of linguistic expressions: you don't know if you are talking about the sign or its meaning.

1. Whitehead, A.N. and Russel, B. (1910). Principia Mathematica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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