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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Bertrand Russell
Learning, Language, Programming
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.106, Routledge

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

Bertrand Russell
Simple, Perfect, Language
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.25, Routledge

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Bertrand Russell
Language, Inference, Process
Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.60, Bertrand Russell

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