| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0415136008 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0851247373 |
| No of pages | 352 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Taylor & Francis, Inc |
| Published Date | 25 Oct 2012 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0415136008 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0851247373 |
| No of pages | 352 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Taylor & Francis, Inc |
| Published Date | 25 Oct 2012 |
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.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."
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Bertrand Russell is concerned with the foundations of knowledge which he approaches first through language. 'Meaning', as applied to words, is shown to be different for words of different kinds: object-words, proper names, logical words and dictionary words. For a sentence we have to consider the way that it expresses something of the nature of an assertion, a denial, an imperative, a desire, or a question.
We can understand what it expresses if we know the meaning of its several words and the rules of syntax. From this Russell passes to a discussion of a belief and a sentence in which it is expressed. 'Knowledge' and 'truth' involve the relationship of truth to experience and Russell considers whether we can know that there are unknowable truths.