Showing posts with label Bertrand Russell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bertrand Russell. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tracking down the Russell joke about solipsism
"As against solipsism it is to be said, in the first place, that it is psychologically impossible to believe, and is rejected in fact even by those who mean to accept it. I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me." (Russell, p. 180). Russell, Bertrand., Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits,London: George Allen & Unwin, 1948.
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solipsism
Friday, October 9, 2009
Bertrand Russell hit on the head with a meatball.
Lots of peeps have been talking recently about the comic book treatment of Russell and Wittgenstein, Logicomix, as well as Robert Crumb's comic adaptation of Genesis, but how many of those peeps are aware of the following?This drawing of Bertrand Russell being hit on the head with a meatball is from Robert Crumb's short comic, "MEATBALL." The whole thing is viewable here: [link]
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Bertrand Russell,
comix
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