Russell examines the foundations of knowledge through a discussion of language and investigates the way a knowledge of the structure of language helps our understanding of the structure of the world.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970). Philosopher, mathematician, educational and sexual reformer, pacifist, prolific letter writer, author and columnist, Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1950 for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his "rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West."
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Russell's An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth is a well-written book with extra in-depth details and careful examining.This book exposes reader to a wide array of topics, which most of the time found going together, which are epistemology, philosophy of language, logic, and a hint of metaphysics. So if the reader is not a philosophy student, s/he can still read this book to gain intermediate knowledge of philosophy of language, given that s/he has already been exposed to fundamental materials of the same topic. I am not a philosophy student, neither a native English speaker, I'm just a philosophy-geek - person who is fascinated with the study of philosophy and complex writing.
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- Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Logical Syntax of Language (Open Court Classics) by Rudolf Carnap in Front Matter, page 268, and page 275
- The Analysis of Mind (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Bertrand Russell in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell in Front Matter
- An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell in Front Matter
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- Bertrand Russell by A. J. Ayer on 10 pages
- The Russellian Origins of Analytical Philosophy: Bertrand Russell and the Unity of the Proposition (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy) by Graham Stevens on 10 pages
- History of Philosophy, Volume VIII: Bentham to Russell by Frederick Charles Copleston on 6 pages
- Particulars, Actuality, and Identity Over Time (Analytical Metaphysics, Volume 4) by Michael Tooley in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 80
- The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer, Volume 21 (Library of Living Philosophers) by Lewis Edwin Hahn on page 521, page 539, and page 543
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