On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:04:51 -0700, William Elliot
<marsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:
>
>> As we all know, it was comrade Stalin's brilliant and objective article
>> _Marxism and linguistics_ in 1951 (IIRC) that established conclusively
>> that language is not a part of the superstructure, and hence formal
>> logic is a legitimate non-ideological discipline.
>
>What's the superstructure?
>
>> "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen"
>> - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
>>
>If it's worth quoting, is it worth translating?
If you don't know what you're talking about keep your mouth shut.
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David C. Ullrich
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