In the Tractatus -- which he wrote in the trenches, mainly, "Witters" writes: Russels Verdienst ist es gezeigt zu haben, dass die schein-bare logische Form des Satzes nicht seine wirkliche sein muss. 4.0031. Geary's German is perhaps better than mine, and he proposes: "The merit of Russell is to have shown that the apparent logical form of a proposition must not be its real form." Geary comments: "Similarly, the shadow of my mother-in-law is not my real mother-in-law" Speranza ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html