Summary
Bertrand Russell: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
"... The essence of philosophy is this," says Russell, "to start from things that are so simple that it seems worthless to even mention them, in order to arrive at something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." Among the paradoxical conclusions is, for example, that material objects are logical fictions, while phantoms and hallucinatory visions are one of the last constituents of reality. Russell, who had previously achieved success in mathematics by replacing very complex entities with definitions containing simpler and more obvious concepts, now applied the same method of logical construction to questions of ontology and epistemology.
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