Project Gutenberg #25447
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
1917Russell's essay collection on science, mysticism, and the limits of philosophy, split from Project Gutenberg HTML sections.
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Achilles and the tortoise, 80 ff, 89 ff Acquaintance, the relation of, 209 ff Alexander, 125 American Realists, the, 134 Aristotle, 42, 76, 97 Bacon, 41 Bergson, 14 ff, 22, 105, 128, 185 ff, 203 Berkeley, 97, 132 Blake, 1 Bosanquet, 99 Broad, 89 n Calculus, the, 82 Cantor, Georg, 64, 81 ff, 85, 91 Carlyle, 50, 82 Cause, the conception of, 135 n, 180 ff Christianity and renunciation, 51 Chuang Tzŭ, 106 Construction of permanent things and matter, 169 ff Constructions, logical, 155 ff Darwin, 15, 23, 43 Dedekind, 64, 81 ff, 85 Descartes, 97, 126 Descriptions, 175, 214 ff Education, 37 ff Euclid, 62, 92, 94 Evolutionism, 23 ff, 28 Fano, 93 Faraday, 34 Free will, 205 ff Frege, 78 n Galileo, 42 Gladstone, 177 Good and evil, 26 ff Hegel, 8, 10, 18, 85, 97, 105 ff Heine, 113 Heraclitus, 1 ff, 10 Hertz, 34 Holt, 177 n Hume, 1, 97 Infinite, the mathematical, 84 ff James, William, 100 Jones, Miss E.E.C., 224 n, 225 Judgment, 219 ff Kant, 85, 96, 97, 99, 118 ff Knowledge by acquaintance, 209 ff; by description, 214 ff Laplace, 23 Leibniz, 76, 79, 82 ff, 97, 126, 144, 160 Locke, 97 Logic, the laws of, 68 ff Macaulay and Taylor's theorem, 95 Malthus, 43 Mathematics, 58 ff; and the Metaphysicians, 74 ff; and logic, 75 ff; and the infinitesimal, 82 ff Matter, the nature of, 125 ff; definition of, 164 ff Maxwell, 34 Meaning and denotation, 223 ff Meinong, 174, 220 n, 225 Militarism, 50 Mill, 185, 193 ff Mysticism and logic, 1 ff Necessity, the notion of, 207 ff[234] Nietzsche, 22, 50 Nunn, 125, 137 n, 153 Parmenides, 7 ff, 18, 21 Particulars, awareness of, 210 ff Peano, 78 ff, 93 ff Perspectives, 139 ff; the space of, 158 ff Philosophy and logic, 111 Physics, sense-data and, 145 ff Pierce, 76 n Plato, 1 ff, 10, 30, 60, 97 Pragmatism, 22, 105 Realism and the analytic method, 120 ff Reason and intuition, 12 ff Relatives, the logic of, 76 Robb, 167 n Santayana, 20 Sense-data, 147, 210 ff; and physics, 145 ff Sensibilia, 148 ff Space, 138 ff; private, 158 ff; the logical problem, 114 ff; the problem in physics, 115 ff; the epistemological problem, 118 ff Systems, deterministic, 199; practically isolated, 198; relatively isolated, 197; mechanical, 201 Time, 10, 21 ff, 141 ff, 167 ff Tristram Shandy, the paradox of, 90 ff Unity and Plurality, 18 ff Universals, awareness of, 212 ff Ward, 180 Weierstrass, 80, 82, 95 Whitehead, 117, 157, 175 Wolf, 173 Zeno the Eleatic, 64, 80, 84, 89 ff