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The Analysis of Matter

Bertrand Russell

1927

Russell's philosophical treatment of physics and matter, prepared section by section from Project Gutenberg HTML.

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CHAPTER XX THE CAUSAL THEORY OF PERCEPTION[43]

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Objectivity: 218, 222 Objects, external: 198 Occam: 15, 290 Odour: 133 Ontology: 9 Orbits, elliptical: 38 Order: 109, 231, 242 „ macroscopic: 304 „ microscopic: 305 Overlapping: 294, 356 Paneth: 24 Parallel displacement: 96, 106 Parallelism, psycho-cerebral: 391 Parallelogram: 99, 104, 117, 377 Particulars: 275, 319, 386 Pasch: 210 Peano: 3, 240 Perception: 137, 159, 164, 173, 175, 177, 178, 186, 187, 188, 189, 215, 218, 219, 247, 398 „ causal theory of: 181, 193, 197, 320 „ causes of: 8 „ cognitive efficacy of: 262 Percepts: 218 „ "ideal": 211 „ physical status of: 257 „ structure of: 281 Percipients, "ideal": 210 Periodicity: 343, 363, 365 Periodic process: 267, 343, 348, 208, 216 Perspective: 198, 208, 216, 221, 323, 333, 334, 348 Peters: 324 Phenomenalism: 209, 324, 333, 388, 398, 399 Philosophy: 194 Photo-electric effect: 31, 329, 395 Photographs: 334 Photon: 126 Physical time: 254 Physics, abstractness of: 130 „ and perception: 6 „ and pure mathematics: 1 Physiology: 137 Place: 217 Planck: 30 Planck's constant. See "" Pluralism: 242 Poincaré: 233, 312 Points: 9, 22, 276, 286, 290, 299, 321, 348, 376, 401 „ "connected": 304 „ material: 321 Possibility: 170 Postulates: 167, 249 Predicate: 239, 242 Prepositions: 242 Primitive religion: 149 Principle of identification: 86 Probability: 16, 141, 167, 170, 398 Progression: 4 Proper names: 242 Propositional functions: 170 Propositions, general: 185 Protons: 9, 24, 80, 153, 234, 244, 394[Pg 407] Psychologist's fallacy: 179 Psychology: 137 Pythagoras: 22, 30, 58, 59, 61, 71, 235 Qualitative cycles: 359 „ differences: 346 „ series: 9, 115, 343 „ similarity: 120 Qualities: 345 „ primary, secondary: 132, 385 Quality: 288, 388, 391 „ intrinsic: 264 Quanta: 24, 26, 30, 329 Quantities, extensive: 116 „ intensive: 116 Quantum: 101, 168, 231, 234, 268, 326, 343, 345, 352, 355, 360, 366, 381, 393, 394, 402 „ laws: 331 „ number: 33, 36 „ phenomena: 322 Radiations: 283, 316, 326, 331 Radio-activity: 368, 393 Ramsey, F. P.: 299 Rationalists: 169 Realism, naive: 149 Recognition: 151 Reflexes: 143, 184 Region: 302, 311 Reichenbach: 381 Relation-number: 250 Relations: 238, 249 „ atomic; molecular: 116 Relativity: 337, 395 „ special theory of: 39, 48 „ theory of: 14, 17, 53, 100 Repetition: 346 Reversibility: 381 Rhythms: 347, 355, 356, 359, 363, 368, 374, 378, 402 Riemann: 21, 55, 58, 59 Robb, A. A.: 313 Rotation, absolute: 17, 358 Rutherford: 285, 325 Rydberg's constant: 32, 35, 195 Schrödinger: 46 Semi-similarity: 254, 265, 269 Sensation: 189 Sense organs: 259 Separation: 118, 377 Shakespeare: 392 Shapes: 202 Sheffer, H. M.: 10, 299 Sight: 316 „ physics: 160 Similar: 265 Similarity: 117, 120, 249 Simultaneity: 52, 63, 278 Skeleton, causal: 391 Smell: 165, 316 Solipsism: 8, 28, 158, 325, 398 Sommerfeld: 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 194, 343, 361 Sound: 133, 165, 209, 253, 261, 267 Space: 131, 143, 198, 286, 347 „ absolute: 321 „ empty: 324 „ Euclidean: 75, 298 „ metrical: 296 „ non-Euclidean: 42 „ perceptual: 252, 335, 338, 386 „ physical: 252, 336, 383, 385 „ tactual; visual: 144, 253 „ topological: 296, 312 Space-time: 49, 132, 244, 286, 338, 340, 341 „ genesis of: 376 „ order: 303 „ physical and perceptual: 333 Space and time, absolute: 14, 22 „ „ common: 207 Spatial relations:348, 359 Specific heat: 32, 195 Specious present: 278 Speech, parts of: 242 Spinoza: 157 Statistical averages: 191, 393 „ fact: 339 Stimulus: 227, 337, 338, 385, 390, 400 Straightness: 307 Structure: 227, 249, 276, 282, 285, 335, 338, 340, 386, 388, 390, 400 Stuff: 244, 388, 401 Subject: 239, 242 Subject-predicate logic: 287 Subjectivity: 223 „ cerebral (or psychological): 225 „ physical: 224 „ physiological (or sensory): 224 Substance: 121, 151, 192, 231, 238, 277, 283, 286, 318, 355, 401 „ indestructible: 238 „ permanent: 239 Suddenness: 347 Surface: 311 Surprise: 185 Symbols: 171[Pg 408] Syntax: 151 Tautologies: 171 Tensor equation: 233 Tensors: 18, 63, 96, 136, 396, 397 Testimony: 193, 203, 206, 399 Theory: 194, 195 Thermodynamics, second law of: 381 Thing, ideal: 213 Thomas, St.: 55 Time: 131, 132, 208, 253, 286, 381 „ perceptual: 338 „ proper: 350, 357 „ psychological: 254 Topography: 177 Touch: 260, 316 „ physics: 160 Transactions: 355, 356, 360, 362, 363, 368, 372, 378, 394, 402 Transitiveness: 251 Truth: 8 Truth-functions: 243 Unconscious: 385 Universals: 152 Urysohn: 297 Vagueness: 220, 223, 224, 280 Variables: 172 Variables, separation of: 36, 393 Velocities, composition of: 53 Velocity: 323, 374 Verbs: 242 Vietoris, L.: 296 Vis viva: 156 Watson, T. B.: 154, 192 Waves, electromagnetic: 20 Weierstrass: 3 Weight: 163 Wells: 226 Weyl: 87, 94, 95, 103, 106, 119, 328, 395, 396 Whitehead: 6, 22, 57, 75, 77, 78, 90, 130, 138, 144, 158, 199, 210, 230, 247, 237, 290, 291, 292, 294, 340, 397 Wilson: 35, 41, 343 Wittgenstein: 16, 171, 239 Words: 151 „ written: 241 World-lines: 135, 244, 253, 317 Writing: 241 Zeeman effect: 35 Zermelo's axiom: 299 Zones: 304 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BILLING AND SONS, LTD., GUILDFORD AND ESHER *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77427 ***

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