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Our knowledge of the external world : as a field for scientific method in philosophy / Bertrand Russell ; with a new introduction by John G. Slater.

Title
Our knowledge of the external world : as a field for scientific method in philosophy / Bertrand Russell ; with a new introduction by John G. Slater.
Author
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Slater, John G. (John Greer)
Description
251 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Russell's attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logic-analytical method in philosophy. --From publisher description.
Subject
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Logical atomism
Note
  • Originally published: Open Court Pub. Co., 1914.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Current Tendencies -- II. Logic as the Essence of Philosophy -- III. On Our Knowledge of the External World -- IV. The World of Physics and the World of Sense -- V. The Theory of Continuity -- VI. The Problem of Infinity Considered Historically -- VII. The Positive Theory of Infinity -- VIII. On the Notion of Cause, with Applications to the Free-Will Problem.
ISBN
0415096057 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^93016365^
OCLC
27430670
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library