Russell´s Early Type Theory and the Paradox of Propositions

• Fuhrmann, André ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Konstanz and Universidade São Judas Tadeu
• Localización: Principia: an international journal of epistemology, ISSN-e 1808-1711, Vol. 5, Nº. 1-2, 2001, págs. 19-42
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paradox of propositions, presented in Appenclix B of Russell's The Principies of Mathernatics (1903), is usually taken as Russell's principal motive, at the time, for moving from a simple to a ramified theory of types. I argue that this view is mistaken. A closer study of Russell's correspondence with Frege reveals that Russell carne to adopt a very different resolution of the paradox, calling into question not the simplicity of his early type theory but the simplicity of his early theory of propositions.