Re: A pk is *both* a physical and a logical object.

From: Jan Hidders <hidders_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:46:33 -0000
Message-ID: <1184363193.984622.64850_at_22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>


On 13 jul, 17:22, paul c <toledobythe..._at_oohay.ac> wrote:
>
> [...] To be fair, I should
> say that what little I understand of Bertrand Russell's writing suggests
> that he might have approved of separating entities from concepts in a
> logical machine, I recall he liked to separate "real things" from
> "class-concepts".

As far as I know he flipped a few times between being a realist and a nomalist. Of course the distinction between abstract and concrete entities is completely independent of the distinction between physical and logical entities, so I'm not really sure why you would bring that up at this point.

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