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" It would seem that, when we make a statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual thing described. That is to say, when we say anything about... "
Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge - Page 258
by Roy Wood Sellars - 1916 - 283 pages
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - 282 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...the judgment of which he himself is a constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown to us. But we know that there...
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Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays

Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 256 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...the judgment of which he himself is a constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown to us. But we know that there...
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Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays

Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 232 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...Bismarck, we should like, if we could, to make the judgement which Bismarck alone can ' make, namely, the judgement of which he himself is a constituent....
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The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic: Selected Essays

Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka - 1989 - 278 pages
...about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form of involving the description, but about the actual thing...we should like, if we could, to make the judgment ... of which he himself is a constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck...
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The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell - 1990 - 172 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...Bismarck, we should like, if we could, to make the judgement which Bismarck alone can make, namely, the judgement of which he himself is a constituent....
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The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Bertrand Russell - 1992 - 748 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...the judgment of which he himself is a constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown to us. But we know that there...
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Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays: And Other Essays

Howard K. Wettstein - 1991 - 262 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...the judgment of which he himself is a constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown to us.27 Russell's remarks...
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The New Wittgenstein

Alice Marguerite Crary, Alice Crary, Rupert J. Read - 2000 - 430 pages
...that, as Russell sees the situation, there is something which we should like to do but cannot do: . . . when we say anything about Bismarck, we should like,...can make, namely the judgment of which he himself is the constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown to us. ("Knowledge...
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The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell - 2004 - 156 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...the judgment of which he himself is a constituent. In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown to us. But we know that there...
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Mysticism and Logic

Bertrand Russell - 2004 - 212 pages
...statement about something only known by description, we often intend to make our statement, not in the form involving the description, but about the actual...Bismarck alone can make, namely, the judgment of which lie himself is a constituent, In this we are necessarily defeated, since the actual Bismarck is unknown...
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