Lexicon of Arguments

 

ad Putnam II 133 ~
Russell: Terminology: a statement corresponds to true facts. Basic constituents of each statement are logically proper names - singular term: all expressions are singular terms. Later self-criticism: not all statements can be reduced to sense data.
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I XXXII(Annotation)
Def Extensionality principle: no two different properties can belong to exactly the same thing ((s) but only intensional).
E.g., "tall man"/"fat man" may be the same, they are just different intensions (therefore no properties)).
I XVI
Def Intensionality principle: to different definitions belong different terms.
Def vicious circle principle/Russell: no totality can contain members that can be defined only in terms of this totality, or members which comprise this totality or presuppose it.
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Hintikka I 180
Def apparent variable/Russell/Hintikka: = bound variable.
>Bound variable.
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II 46
Def "space-like"/Russell: two events are space-like if it is impossible for a body to move fast enough to be present at both events - but it can be "halfway" and perceive both as happening at the same time.
Def "time-like"/Russell: two events are time-like if it is possible for a physical body to be present at both events. Borderline case: E.g. two events as part of a light beam or - E.g. an event. perception of the other event: then distance 0.
Def Distance/Russell: is a physical fact which is part of the events and does not depend on the circumstances of observer.
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II 20
Paradox of Tristram Shandy/Russell: The retention of the axiom (that there are infinitely many time points beween two time points) leads to other paradoxes of which I call one: the paradox of Tristram Shandy. It is the reversal of the Zenonian paradox and says that the turtle can get everywhere if you give it only enough time. Tristram Shandy needed two years to list the course of the first two days of his life and complained that the material accumulated faster than he could capture it.
Russell: I assert now that if he had lived his life that way further on, he would not have missed any part of his biography. For the hundredth part is written in the thousandth year, and so on.