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The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Taken from a series of influential lectures delivered by Russell during the second decade of the twentieth century, this is a brilliant introduction to logical atomism and its application to ontology and epistemology.
Paperback, 196 pages
Published
March 19th 1985
by Open Court Publishing Company
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Russell takes pains (generally) to not muddle his message, while keeping the text from dryness with his down-to-earth writing style and dry humor. Does not seem to be an overly-rigid treatment of the subject, though this is likely due to the fact that it is a lecture series, and wasn't originally created as a book.
provides a nice historical/philosophical context for wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.
I learned that metaphysical inquiry has stalled due to questions about epistemological methods; learned that quibbling over the ways to reason can sometimes keep us from moving the discussion forward; was struck by the argument that statements of belief are statements of fact (from the perspective of the believer, of course) and that in a purely deductive way such statements are like empirical knowledge gained. Beliefs are subjective and absolute simultaneously (an absurdity that almost discount...more
A brilliant premise that was ultimately wrong.
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.
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“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at, because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
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