BERTRAND RUSSELL or THE FOG OF LANGUAGE

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We will learn, debate, enjoy and investigate philosophers and diverse themes from the philosophical perspective. Each reunion is structured as a conversation among all attendees about that day s philosopher softly moderated by the organizer. The conversation will kick-off from the very brief suggested reading providing easy access to all attendees both to the philosopher and the conversation.

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BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872 –1970) , the english Mathematician turned as philosopher into one of the apostles of the Analytic Philosophy Trinity (with Frege and Wittgenstein), the movement that placed language in the center of the philosophical exploration with a very promising claim: the ambivalence and lack of precision of natural languages (english, greek, portuguese, etc...) plus its convincing powers are at the core of the philosophical dilemmas, which are essentially no more than lingüistic conundrums. Language can denote entities which do not exist in the real world. Solve the language and you will solve the philosophy - is the essential insight of their revolution.
But is it? Is Language a problem ? Is Language... THE problem, as analytic philosophy diagnoses. And if it is...what do we do ? Is there a better language, a better use of language ? Would core metaphisical conflicts disappear with a different use of language...?

Let s think with Bertrand Russell about language...