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Full Idea
In 1911 Russell held that the propositions of logic are supremely general truths about the most pervasive traits of reality, to which we have access by abstraction from non-logical propositions.
Gist of Idea
Logic is highly general truths abstracted from reality
Source
report of Bertrand Russell (Philosophical Implications of Mathematical logic [1911]) by Hans-Johann Glock - What is Analytic Philosophy? 2.4
Book Ref
Glock,Han-Johann: 'What is Analytic Philosophy?' [CUP 2008], p.34
A Reaction
Glock says the rival views were Mill's inductions, psychologism, and Frege's platonism. Wittgenstein converted Russell to a fifth view, that logic is empty tautologies. I remain resolutely attached to Russell's abstraction view.