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  2. Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS [7] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual.

  3. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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    The collection includes essays on the subjects of sociology, ethics and philosophy.In the eponymous essay, Russell displays a series of arguments and reasoning with the aim of stating how the 'belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour' and how work 'is by no means one of the ...

  4. Theory of descriptions - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions was initially put forth in his 1905 essay "On Denoting", published in the journal of philosophy Mind.Russell's theory is focused on the logical form of expressions involving denoting phrases, which he divides into three groups:

  5. Philosophical views of Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

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    The aspects of Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy cover the changing viewpoints of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), from his early writings in 1896 until his death in February 1970.

  6. A History of Western Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    History of Western Philosophy [a] is a 1946 book by British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970). A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, each major division of the book is prefaced by an account of the historical background necessary to understand the currents of thought it describes. [1]

  7. My Philosophical Development - Wikipedia

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    Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano.

  8. Knowledge by acquaintance - Wikipedia

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    The distinction in its present form was first proposed by British philosopher Bertrand Russell in his famous 1905 paper, "On Denoting". [2] According to Russell, knowledge by acquaintance is obtained exclusively through experience, and results from a direct causal interaction between a person and an object that the person is perceiving.

  9. A Treatise on Probability - Wikipedia

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    It was in part pre-empted by Bertrand Russell's use of an unpublished version. [ 9 ] [ notes 4 ] In a 1922 review, Bertrand Russell , the co-author of Principia Mathematica , called it "undoubtedly the most important work on probability that has appeared for a very long time," and said that the "book as a whole is one which it is impossible to ...