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       It is easy to suppose that “individual”, “particular”, “complex” etc. are primitive ideas of logic. Russell e.g. says “individual” & “matrix” are “primitive ideas”. This error presumably is to be explained by the fact that, by employment of variables instead of ˇthe generality-signs, it comes to seem as if logic dealt with things which have been deprived of all properties except thing-hood, & with propositions deprived of all properties except complexity. We forget that the indefinables of symbols [Urbilder von Zeichen] only occur under the generality-sign, never outside it.
 

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.



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