Ideas from 'Our Knowledge of the External World' by Bertrand Russell [1914], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Our Knowledge of the External World' by Russell,Bertrand [Routledge 1993,0-415-09605-7]].

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

21584

A sense of timelessness is essential to wisdom

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

21572

Philosophical disputes are mostly hopeless, because philosophers don't understand each other

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

21571

Philosophical systems are interesting, but we now need a more objective scientific philosophy

21574

Hegel's confusions over 'is' show how vast systems can be built on simple errors

21587

Philosophers sometimes neglect truth and distort facts to attain a nice system

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

21582

Physicists accept particles, points and instants, while pretending they don't do metaphysics

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 6. Logical Analysis

21573

When problems are analysed properly, they are either logical, or not philosophical at all

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

21588

Logic gives the method of research in philosophy

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

21586

The logical connectives are not objects, but are formal, and need a context

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / a. Achilles paradox

21585

The tortoise won't win, because infinite instants don't compose an infinitely long time

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

21684

Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts

22316

A positive and negative fact have the same constituents; their difference is primitive

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

21576

With asymmetrical relations (before/after) the reduction to properties is impossible

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

21575

When we attribute a common quality to a group, we can forget the quality and just talk of the group

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / c. Representative realism

21580

Science condemns sense-data and accepts matter, but a logical construction must link them

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / c. Unperceived sense-data

21583

When sense-data change, there must be indistinguishable sense-data in the process

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

21577

Empirical truths are particular, so general truths need an a priori input of generality

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

21579

Objects are treated as real when they connect with other experiences in a normal way

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

21578

Global scepticism is irrefutable, but can't replace our other beliefs, and just makes us hesitate

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds

6416	Other minds seem to exist, because their testimony supports realism about the world [Grayling]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time

21581

We never experience times, but only succession of events