Bertrand Russell
Noun
Meaning
English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
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Alfred North Whitehead to Bertrand Russell, February 13, 1895, Bertrand Russell Archives, Archives and Research Collections, McMaster Library, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Bertrand Russell citation named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, commenting: citation Keynes's intellect was the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known.
Bertrand Russell commented, expressing the sentiments of many mid-20th-century analytic philosophers, that: Highly eccentric in its terminology, his philosophy is extremely obscure.
Bertrand Russell argued that the necessity of defeating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis was a unique circumstance where war was not the worst of the possible evils; he called his position relative pacifism.
Bertrand Russell notes that "almost every serious intellectual advance has had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine".
As said by Bertrand Russell : citation If our hypothesis is about anything, and not about some one or more particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics.