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Ideas for John Austin, Peter Smith and Bertrand Russell
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
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A sense of timelessness is essential to wisdom [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / b. Modern philosophy beginnings
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Russell started a whole movement in philosophy by providing an analysis of descriptions [Read on Russell]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
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Philosophers must get used to absurdities [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
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Philosophy verifies that our hierarchy of instinctive beliefs is harmonious and consistent [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
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Philosophers should be more inductive, and test results by their conclusions, not their self-evidence [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
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Discoveries in mathematics can challenge philosophy, and offer it a new foundation [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
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Philosophical disputes are mostly hopeless, because philosophers don't understand each other [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics cannot give knowledge of the universe as a whole [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Philosophical systems are interesting, but we now need a more objective scientific philosophy [Russell]
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Hegel's confusions over 'is' show how vast systems can be built on simple errors [Russell]
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Philosophers sometimes neglect truth and distort facts to attain a nice system [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Physicists accept particles, points and instants, while pretending they don't do metaphysics [Russell]
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The business of metaphysics is to describe the world [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
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Analysis gives us nothing but the truth - but never the whole truth [Russell]
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Philosophy is logical analysis, followed by synthesis [Russell]
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Only by analysing is progress possible in philosophy [Russell]
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Analysis gives new knowledge, without destroying what we already have [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
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Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]
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The study of grammar is underestimated in philosophy [Russell]
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All philosophy should begin with an analysis of propositions [Russell]
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'Socrates is human' expresses predication, and 'Socrates is a man' expresses identity [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 6. Logical Analysis
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We can't sharply distinguish variables, domains and values, if symbols frighten us [Russell]
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When problems are analysed properly, they are either logical, or not philosophical at all [Russell]
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A logical language would show up the fallacy of inferring reality from ordinary language [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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Analysis falsifies, if when the parts are broken down they are not equivalent to their sum [Russell]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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Philosophy is similar to science, and has no special source of wisdom [Russell]
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Philosophy should be built on science, to reduce error [Russell]
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Philosophers usually learn science from each other, not from science [Russell]
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