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* Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, social activist and logician, member of the Royal Society, Nobel prize winner, member of the House of Lords ( 1892 )
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These sages include poet Carl Sandburg, statesman Jawaharlal Nehru and sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, in Volume One, and playwright Sean O'Casey, David Ben-Gurion, philosopher Bertrand Russell and the late Frank Lloyd Wright in the second set.
Bertrand Russell notes that " almost every serious intellectual advance has had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine ".
* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1
* Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell ( March 6, 1927 ).
Sowell cites Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky and Edmund Wilson as paradigmatic examples of this phenomenon.
* by Bertrand Russell, November 1920
Gottlob Frege did explicitly axiomatize a theory in which the formalized version of naive set theory can be interpreted, and it is this formal theory which Bertrand Russell actually addressed when he presented his paradox.
Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".
In the 20th century, the philosopher Bertrand Russell expressed his criticism of Christianity in Why I Am Not a Christian, formulating his rejection of Christianity in the setting of logical arguments.
In 1958 he was, along with Bertrand Russell, one of a group of notables to establish the Homosexual Law Reform Society.
Bertrand Russell ( 1959 ) wrote, " Beyond doubt [...] he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century, and certainly the greatest American thinker ever.
Collins was chosen as its Chairman, Bertrand Russell as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary.
In 1960 Bertrand Russell resigned from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in order to form the Committee of 100, which became, in effect, the direct action wing of CND.
More recently Bertrand Russell sought to develop a formal language based on logical atoms.
Wisher based his performance as Davros on the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Bertrand Russell is famous for distinguishing " knowledge by description " ( a form of knowledge that ) and " knowledge by acquaintance " in Problems of Philosophy.
According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.
As said by Bertrand Russell:
* Euclid's axioms: In his dissertation to Trinity College, Cambridge, Bertrand Russell summarized the changing role of Euclid's geometry in the minds of philosophers up to that time.
The Epimenides paradox appears explicitly in " Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types ", by Bertrand Russell, in the American Journal of Mathematics, volume 30, number 3 ( July, 1908 ), pages 222 – 262, which opens with the following:
* Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica to * 56, Cambridge at the University Press, 1962.
* Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge, 1948
He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.
" Between 1945 and 1947, with A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, he contributed a series of articles and essays to Polemic, a short-lived British " Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics " edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater.
He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and ( before them ) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy.
Bertrand and philosopher
* 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer, and philosopher, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )
Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".
* May 18 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1970 )
In A History of Western Philosophy, logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that:
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell was an enthusiastic advocate of the importance of Pavlov's work for philosophy of mind.
According to Allende, Einstein had solved the theory, but had suppressed it, since mankind was not ready for it — a confession that the scientist allegedly shared with the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Morrell's lovers may have included the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the writer Dorothy Bussy, the painters Augustus John, and Henry Lamb, the artist Dora Carrington, the art historian Roger Fry, and in her later years, there was even a brief affair with a gardener, Lionel Gomme, who was employed at Garsington.
* February 2 – Bertrand Russell, philosopher
Later, when the publisher W. W. Norton suggested he write an official biography of their author Bertrand Russell, Hazlitt spent " a good deal of time ," as he described it, with the famous philosopher both in New York City and London.
The skeptic philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell argued that the antidote to odium theologicum is science, which he characterized as dealing purely with fact, devoid of any personal commitment.
" The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century.
The best-known modern British advocate of free love was the philosopher Bertrand Russell, later Third Earl Russell, who said that he did not believe he really knew a woman until he had made love with her.
Russell is the ancestor of all subsequent Earls and Dukes of Bedford and Earls Russell, including John Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and philosopher Bertrand Russell, as well as of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Russell is the ancestor of all subsequent Earls and Dukes of Bedford and Earls Russell, including John Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Journalist I. F. Stone and philosopher Bertrand Russell strongly influenced Gravel in their willingness to challenge assumptions and oppose social convention and political authority.
Nobel-prize winning philosopher Bertrand Russell described Buddhism as a speculative and scientific philosophy:
For example, philosopher Bertrand Russell left the Liberal Party, and wrote pamphlets denouncing the Act and the Liberals for making in his view an illiberal and anti-constitutional law.
He served as Bertrand Russell's interpreter when the renowned British philosopher visited China in 1920.
During his medical degree he set up a " Socratic Club ", of which the philosopher Bertrand Russell agreed to be President.
Important influences on their brand of empiricism included Ernst Mach — himself holding the Chair of Inductive Sciences at the University of Vienna, a position Schlick would later hold — and the Cambridge philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Nicholas Rescher has pointed out how radically conservative were the views of Bertrand Russell in his unreasoned rejection of both Modal Logic and the ideas of the philosopher Alexius Meinong.
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