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🔴 📖 **The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell**

_"In this work, Russell explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, interrogating what we can genuinely know about the world around us."_

🔗 gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827

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this small booklet has ever been - and although at the level of 1912 - imop continues to be a premium intro to #philosophy for #newbies, targeting an optimum of respective comprehensibility but sophistication in matter and humility in style

@Wilhelm_Grafe Russel was good, but there is a reason why Whitehead stopped working with him. Also I believe that Whitehead went deeper into the problems of philosophy (and I like his style better).

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yes, agree in a way. but do not see a win in playing off those two against each other, as later (after their common work PM) their work developed rather independently in more or less complementary areas, sometimes overlapping in #PhilSci topics.

E.g., if one focusses in #philosophy first of all on questions of #ontology (of science), ANW's process ontology will be much more impressive than say the duplicating entities of logical constructs in 'logical atomism' (which imop is a late and needless sin of BR).

If, on the other hand, the main focus is #logic and logic related
#epistemology and/or #PhilMath, there is roughly anything deeper and more worth considering than the theory of incomplete symbols; and perhaps no more careful and penetrating study than the ramified theory of types as developed from the circulus vitiosus argument, even when this theory was abandoned in the sequel for independent reasons.

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