Monday, April 6, 2020

Grice: "Why Russell should have read Peirce!"

Bertrand Russell hailed this development (which he considered to be Sheffer’s “discovery”) and, with the co-author of Principia Mathematica Alfred Whitehead, added an entire section in the 2^{nd} edition to take advantage of the discovery. Russell was not aware that Peirce had already made the discovery in the 19^{th} century. 

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