This book was a great primer to get me back into philosophy. Although I will say it is not a book one should start with if she or he would want to learn more about philosophy. As such, it does provide a great bridge from the pioneers of Western Philosophy to the more modern advocates.

The book itself is not a very easy read and one can easily get lost and have to re-read some paragraphs a few times to begin to grasp what Ruessell is saying. While most content is a pretty clear read, the topics are very deep and require the reader to have some knowledge of the ideas that he is building upon.

Critical to this book is a decent understanding of Logic. Without this, it makes the work all the more difficult to comprehend. It was clear to me that I need to go back and bone up on my Logic, that I do.

Still, a great, worthwhile and very import read. At the end of the book he provides some very worthwhile recommendations.

The book itself details Russel's ideas on existence working through concepts of truth and knowledge and what it means to know or experience something. His hypothesis, though, by the title of the book, gets somewhat lost along the way taking a back seat to the concepts of existence, truth, and knowledge only to be summarized succinctly over the last few pages. The idea culminating in the importance and need for philosophy to continue even though some of ideas philosophical processes are put against (i.e.; religion) may never bear fruit.