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In 1936, Popper was present as a guest at a meeting of the Aristotelian Society where Russell was the speaker. He intervened, but the audience took his remarks as a joke, greeting them with laughter and clapping. 40 years later he wrote, ‘I wonder whether there was anybody there who suspected that not only did I seriously hold these views, but that, in due course, they would widely be regarded as commonplace.’
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Despite the familiar questions, there are few topics more baffling than that of accounting for probability. A fundamental question is whether we talk about probability because it is an objective con- stituent of the world or only because we are ignorant of what is go- ing to happen. In other words, is the future intrinsically uncertain, or is uncertainty merely the product of our human limitations?
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Russell and the early W. believed that everyday language obscures its underlying logical structure. "The King of France is bald" is a proposition whose logical structure is not immediately apparent on the surface. Language is a covering, like clothing to the body. A baggy jumper may disguise the shape inside. W. II did not take this view: he believed that language is in perfect working order— it hides nothing.
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“Wittgenstein accused Carnap of plagiarism — a crime that he was always scenting and that he believed was actually com- pounded in this case by Carnap's acknowledgment in the book of the debt he owed Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein responded, "I don't mind a small boy's stealing my apples, but I do mind his saying that I gave them to him”
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“For an imperial capital that at its zenith ruled over Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Italians, Galicians, Slovenes, Serbs and Croats —and Austrians— Vienna was a surprisingly tight-knit city.”
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Ukrainians. They’re Ukrainians. Ruthenians, if you must, but Galicians is not an ethnicity.
(Yes, I understand that Habsburg Galicia includes Poles, but those are mentioned by name)
— Jan 24, 2026 02:05AM
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Ukrainians. They’re Ukrainians. Ruthenians, if you must, but Galicians is not an ethnicity.
(Yes, I understand that Habsburg Galicia includes Poles, but those are mentioned by name)
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“‘If a person tells me he has been to the worst of places I have no right to judge him, but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know that he is a fraud.’”
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