Neutral Monism
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Logical atomism, complex sentences and intensional contexts
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There is also a considerable further problem with this philosophy of logical atomism. There are, in addition to atomic and compound sentences, sentences that are called complex sentences. These complex sentences express attitudes. For instance, "Russell believes his cat is a nice cat" attributes an attitude of belief to Russell. Complex sentences involve a sentence within a sentence. Here the sentence "his cat is a nice cat" is contained within the sentence, "Russell believes…." Such sentences within sentences are called in logic intensional contexts. Sentences about sense-data provide extensional contexts. Here we will simply assert that no one has yet been able to give a wholly satisfactory account of intensional contexts in terms of extensional contexts. This provides a further technical difficulty in pursuing the philosophy of logical atomism.
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Contents of
Neutral Monism
1 Sense data, atoms of perception
2 Hume, sense-data, sense impressions and atoms of experience
3 Entrapment within subjectivity, ideas
4 Neutral monism, realism, Russell, A.J. Ayer, Qualia
5 Is the whole a composite of its parts?
6 Space, time, continuity and atomism
7 Phenomenalism
8 The philosophy of logical atomism
9 Logical atomism, complex sentences and intensional contexts
10 Human identity in the context of naive realism
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