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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

31 chapters, about 68,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. BY BERTRAND RUSSELL 300 words
2. PREFACE 300 words
3. MYSTICISM AND LOGIC 2,900 words
4. IV. What kind of reality belongs to good and evil? 100 words
5. I. REASON AND INTUITION[3] 1,900 words
6. II. UNITY AND PLURALITY 700 words
7. III. TIME 1,700 words
8. IV. GOOD AND EVIL 1,900 words
9. I 2,000 words
10. II 1,700 words
11. A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP[9] 3,500 words
12. THE STUDY OF MATHEMATICS 4,700 words
13. MATHEMATICS AND THE METAPHYSICIANS 7,000 words
14. ON SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN PHILOSOPHY 900 words
15. I 2,900 words
16. II 4,600 words
17. THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER[23] 6,500 words
18. I. THE PROBLEM STATED 500 words
19. II. CHARACTERISTICS OF SENSE-DATA 500 words
20. III. SENSIBILIA 500 words
21. IV. SENSE-DATA ARE PHYSICAL 700 words
22. V. "SENSIBILIA" AND "THINGS" 800 words
23. VI. CONSTRUCTIONS VERSUS INFERENCES 900 words
24. VII. PRIVATE SPACE AND THE SPACE OF PERSPECTIVES 1,000 words
25. VIII. THE PLACING OF "THINGS" AND "SENSIBILIA" IN PERSPECTIVE SPACE 900 words
26. IX. THE DEFINITION OF MATTER 800 words
27. X. TIME[30] 400 words
28. XI. THE PERSISTENCE OF THINGS AND MATTER 1,300 words
29. XII. ILLUSIONS, HALLUCINATIONS, AND DREAMS 2,000 words
30. ON THE NOTION OF CAUSE 7,400 words
31. KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOWLEDGE BY DESCRIPTION 7,200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Algorithm
• Awareness
• Axiom
• Biography
• Chaos (cosmogony)
• Classical education
• Classification
• Denotation
• Elegance
• Euclid
• Euclidean geometry
• Event (philosophy)
• Geometry
• Good
• Good and evil
• Indignation
• Infinitesimal
• Infinity
• Infinity (philosophy)
• Insight
• Integer
• Intuition
• Intuition (Bergson)
• Judgment (law)
• Mathematics
• Philosophy of education
• Physicist
• Physics
• Pragmatism
• Repetition compulsion

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