12.2172, Sum: Source of Russell Quote

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2172. Thu Sep 6 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2172, Sum: Source of Russell Quote

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Date:  Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:28:12 -0400
From:  "Stephen R. Anderson" <stephen.anderson at yale.edu>
Subject:  Source of Russell quote about dogs

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Date:  Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:28:12 -0400
From:  "Stephen R. Anderson" <stephen.anderson at yale.edu>
Subject:  Source of Russell quote about dogs

I received many responses to my inquiry about this famous quotation, but
virtually all of them were either references to other places where it's
been quoted or requests for the answer if I found it. Someone else
re-posted my question on another list (HOPOS-L, History of the Philosophy
of Science), though, which elicited the answer from Malthe Nielsen
<maldel at wanadoo.fr>:

> In "Human Knowledge - Its Scope And Limits (George Allen and Unwin Ltd.,
> London, 1948) Russell writes (page 74):

> "A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he
> cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor."

Unless Russell said more or less the same thing elsewhere in different
form, most of the citations of this remark that I've found (and I've found
lots - all without a source beyond "Russell") are more or less imprecise.

- Steve Anderson

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