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[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis ]

Full Idea

Though analysis gives us the truth, and nothing but the truth, yet it can never give us the whole truth

Gist of Idea

Analysis gives us nothing but the truth - but never the whole truth

Source

Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §138)

Book Ref

Russell,Bertrand: 'Principles of Mathematics' [Routledge 1992], p.141