On 2006-07-24 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.
Perhaps Stalin made his propaganda and direction job ...
> I'm wondering whether
> there is any good account of the history of formal logic in USSR,
> especially in its "ideological aspects" - something like _Science and
> philosophy in the Soviet Union_ by Loren Graham, but focusing on logic,
> explicitly excluded by Graham?
.... and let the scientists do their research.
So he was in the fine situation of having control on both. Stalin is
known to be a hard and brutal man, but not as a stupid one.
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