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"The logician is interested not in what symbols mean, but in how they mean," Mr. Russell said. "Though there may be universes in which it is possible, we cannot justify inductive logic. And deductive logic depends on symbols having meaning."
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"If the word 'Caesar' is said to mean Caesar, this involves the assumption of much historical knowledge. It might be possible to trace back the noises which the Romans made when thew saw the conqueror coming, and which were used in acclamation of the emperor by the Roman mobs. Though...
"The word 'stone' can never have the affect of the object. To say, 'I shall pull your nose' may be as effective in producing anger as to carry out the threat. A man's mouth waters when he first eats a lemon, then when he sees another eating it, then...
"It would be hard to say what the reflex to some abstract word such as 'incompatibility' would be. Yet here again I think conditioned reflexes would be involved. Meaning is therefore a psychological, or a physiological concept."