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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Principles of Mathematics' and 'A Problem about Substitutional Quantification?'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
14122 Analysis gives us nothing but the truth - but never the whole truth [Russell]
     Full Idea: Though analysis gives us the truth, and nothing but the truth, yet it can never give us the whole truth
     From: Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §138)
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
14109 The study of grammar is underestimated in philosophy [Russell]
     Full Idea: The study of grammar, in my opinion, is capable of throwing far more light on philosophical questions than is commonly supposed by philosophers.
     From: Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §046)
     A reaction: This is a dangerous tendency, which has led to some daft linguistic philosophy, but Russell himself was never guilty of losing the correct perspective on the matter.
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
14165 Analysis falsifies, if when the parts are broken down they are not equivalent to their sum [Russell]
     Full Idea: It is said that analysis is falsification, that the complex is not equivalent to the sum of its constituents and is changed when analysed into these.
     From: Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Mathematics [1903], §439)
     A reaction: Not quite Moore's Paradox of Analysis, but close. Russell is articulating the view we now call 'holism' - that the whole is more than the sum of its parts - which I can never quite believe.