| 单词 | logical atom |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslogical atom logical atom n. Philosophy (in the work of some philosophers) one of the essential and indivisible elements into which a statement can be analysed; a propositional element which cannot be analysed into simpler elements. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [noun] > logical atomism (in Russell and Wittgenstein) > elements of logical atom1873 1873 C. S. Peirce in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. New Ser. 9 ii. 343 The logical atom, or term not capable of logical division, must be one of which every predicate may be universally affirmed or denied... A logical atom, then, like a point in space, would involve for its precise determination an endless process. 1918 B. Russell in Monist 28 497 The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the..last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. 1958 G. J. Warnock Eng. Philos. since 1900 v. 54 Russell's world of indefinitely numerous, independent logical atoms is the metaphysical opposite of Bradley's Absolute. 1996 L. Holzman & F. Newman Unscientific Psychol. (ed. 2) iii. 43 The logical positivists..interpreted Wittgenstein's Tractatus as a directive to transform philosophy (now without the metaphysics, but not without the particular, which had become a logical atom!) into a servant of science. < as lemmas |
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