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0. Lyrics to song*
1): 
Bertie said to me, buddy, can't you see,
All that you can know, all that you can know, are sense-data.
Where are these data?
He said, in your brain, in your brain.
Ref. A):
Analytic pee, academic wee-wee,
analytic drivel, academic piddle,
analytic piss, it goes like this.
2): 
Bertie then proclaimed, somewhat overstrained,
I must get acquainted with particulars.
What are particulars?
He said, thoughts, feelings, images and sense-data,
thoughts, feelings, images...
Ref. B):
Analytic dribble, academic quibble,
analytic pee, academic wee-wee,
analytic piss, let's give it a miss.
3):
Universals are opposed, as everybody knows,
to the particulars, to particulars
given in sensation, in sensation.
Universals are conceptual entities, conceptual entities.
Ref. A)
4):
Particulars exist in time, otherwise it don't rhyme,
Universals, universals have timeless being, timeless being.
They're unchangeable, rigid and exact,,
unchangeable, rigid...
Ref. B)
5): 
Being quite confused, with what Bertie had mused,
I asked him, I asked him, what then is a physical object, a physical object?
He said, constructions from actual and possible sense-data,
from actual and possible...
Ref. A)
6) = 1)
Ref. B)
* Note: The lyrics are based on A.J. Ayer's essay,
'An Appraisal of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy' in Bertrand Russell: Philosopher of the Century
(ed.) Ralph Schoenman, George Allen & Unwin, London 1967 pp.167-178,
including direct quotations from Bertrand Russell's works.
1. MP3 audio file
Analytic P. 
MP3 audio file. |
