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A Sexist Joke in Principia Mathematica
- Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 39, Number 2, Winter 2019-20
- pp. 138-140
- 10.1353/rss.2019.0002
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Abstract:
Attempts have recently been made (Blackwell, 2011; Berumen, 2014) to catalogue the humour in Principia Mathematica, but so far overlooked has been a joke in the symbolism of PM itself.