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Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

13 chapters, about 61,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 400 words
2. CURRENT TENDENCIES 6,800 words
3. LOGIC AS THE ESSENCE OF PHILOSOPHY 7,100 words
4. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD 10,900 words
5. LECTURE IV 4,900 words
6. C________ 300 words
7. I. In order to secure that instants form a series, we assume: 1,700 words
8. THE THEORY OF CONTINUITY 2,100 words
9. P1 P P2 Q ------|----|----|----|------> 3,800 words
10. THE PROBLEM OF INFINITY CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY 6,200 words
11. THE POSITIVE THEORY OF INFINITY 6,600 words
12. LECTURE VIII 9,600 words
13. INDEX 1,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Atomism
• Attitude (psychology)
• Biology
• Boredom
• Definition
• Enumeration
• History of philosophy
• Infinity
• Infinity (philosophy)
• Insight
• Intuition (Bergson)
• Logic
• Open-mindedness
• Orphan
• Philosophy
• Property (philosophy)
• Proportionality (mathematics)
• Proposition
• Sentence (mathematical logic)
• Skepticism
• Solar System

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