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Bertrand Russell

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What's Monism and Why Did Russell Argue Against It?

If things we say seem meaningful to us, it must be because the expressions in what we say that refer to things actually have something to refer to. This was minong's theory adand minong said, werl obviously, of course, we don't really want there to be fairies jumping about at the bottom of the garden. So what we have to think of in their case is that they don't fully exist, but they sub sist. There's a kind of second class existence that they have which enables us to talk about them. That was the view that russell adopted. And very amusingly, a much later philosopher, w v Quine, described this

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