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The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

16 chapters, about 42,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 100 words
2. CHAPTER I. APPEARANCE AND REALITY 3,000 words
3. CHAPTER II. THE EXISTENCE OF MATTER 2,700 words
4. CHAPTER III. THE NATURE OF MATTER 2,800 words
5. CHAPTER IV. IDEALISM 2,500 words
6. CHAPTER V. KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOWLEDGE BY DESCRIPTION 3,800 words
7. CHAPTER VI. ON INDUCTION 2,200 words
8. CHAPTER VII. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES 3,200 words
9. CHAPTER VIII. HOW _A PRIORI_ KNOWLEDGE IS POSSIBLE 2,600 words
10. CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS 2,800 words
11. CHAPTER X. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF UNIVERSALS 2,700 words
12. CHAPTER XI. ON INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE 2,100 words
13. CHAPTER XII. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD 3,200 words
14. CHAPTER XIII. KNOWLEDGE, ERROR, AND PROBABLE OPINION 2,800 words
15. CHAPTER XIV. THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE 3,000 words
16. CHAPTER XV. THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY 2,500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Belief
• Denotation
• Evidence
• Humanities
• Idealism
• Integer
• Judgement
• Knowledge
• Lightning
• Philosophy
• Philosophy (journal)
• Philosophy of mind
• Principle
• Rationalism
• Relation (philosophy)
• Self-evidence
• Sense data
• Skepticism
• Tautology (logic)
• Truth

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