Ideas from 'My Philosophical Development' by Bertrand Russell [1959], by Theme Structure

[found in 'My Philosophical Development' by Russell,Bertrand [Routledge 1993,0-415-09865-3]].

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

6420	Only by analysing is progress possible in philosophy

6432	Analysis gives new knowledge, without destroying what we already have

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 9. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

6437	The theory of types makes 'Socrates and killing are two' illegitimate

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

6442	Truth belongs to beliefs, not to propositions and sentences

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

6436	I gradually replaced classes with properties, and they ended as a symbolic convenience

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

7528	Leibniz bases everything on subject/predicate and substance/property propositions

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

6439	Names are meaningless unless there is an object which they designate

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

6423	We tried to define all of pure maths using logical premisses and concepts

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

6424	Formalists say maths is merely conventional marks on paper, like the arbitrary rules of chess

6425	Formalism can't apply numbers to reality, so it is an evasion

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

6426	Intuitionism says propositions are only true or false if there is a method of showing it

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms

6419	In 1899-1900 I adopted the philosophy of logical atomism

6438	Complex things can be known, but not simple things

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

6434	Facts are everything, except simples; they are either relations or qualities

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism

6440	Universals can't just be words, because words themselves are universals

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

6430	In epistemology we should emphasis the continuity between animal and human minds

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

6441	Pragmatism judges by effects, but I judge truth by causes

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

6431	Empiricists seem unclear what they mean by 'experience'

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem

6444	True belief about the time is not knowledge if I luckily observe a stopped clock at the right moment

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique

6433	Behaviourists struggle to explain memory and imagination, because they won't admit images

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / b. Error

6443	Surprise is a criterion of error

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

6427	Unverifiable propositions about the remote past are still either true or false

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

6435	You can believe the meaning of a sentence without thinking of the words