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Inaugural lecture of Professor Potter as Professor of Logic at the University of Cambridge

18 Oct 2013
Cambridge, U.K.

Michael Potter will give his inaugural lecture as Professor of Logic.

Friday 18 October, 2013 at 5.30pm
Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge

On 9th October 1913 Ludwig Wittgenstein dictated a typescript, part of what
are now known as the Notes on Logic, in the presence of his supervisor,
Bertrand Russell. In that typescript Wittgenstein says that `assertion is
merely psychological?? Why does he say it, is it true, and what consequences
does it have for our understanding of logic?

This lecture is open to the public.