Russelliann.adj.
/rʌˈsɛlɪən/, U.S. /rəˈsɛliən/ A. n.
An advocate or adherent of Russell's theories.
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1914 Mind 23 394 My reason for questioning Prof. Perry's account of James's psychology is simply that he is far too much of a Russellian to accept it.
1954 R. Wells in Word 10 245 Examples..have been separately discussed by various Russellians and Wittgensteinians.
2005 Genetic, Social, & Gen. Psychol. Monogr. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 251 Russellians have failed to use the Gricean concepts.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Bertrand Russell or his work in mathematics and philosophy.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [adjective]
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Russellian1915
1915 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 15 237 His brain and nervous system (once more in a Russellian sense) move into surrounding places in perspective space.
1937 Discovery Feb. 61/1 The Russellian ‘calculus of propositions’.
1956 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Remarks Found. Math. v. 166 The Russellian contradiction is disquieting, not because it is a contradiction, but because the whole growth culminating in it is a cancerous growth.
1988 Philos. Q. 38 145 Here is what I shall call the Russellian account of the logical form of belief-ascriptions.
2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) iv. 112 The one-way movement down a Russellian hierarchy from metalanguage to object language.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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