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Single Idea 17640

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation]

Full Idea

The premises [of a science] ...are pretty certain to lead to a number of new results which could not otherwise have been known.

Gist of Idea

Finding the axioms may be the only route to some new results

Source

Bertrand Russell (Regressive Method for Premises in Mathematics [1907], p.282)

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'Essays in Analysis', ed/tr. Lackey,Douglas [George Braziller 1973], p.282


A Reaction

I identify this as the 'fruitfulness' that results when the essence of something is discovered.