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Bertrand and Russell
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 particular
Bertrand Russell is credited with noticing the existence of such paradoxes even in the best symbolic formalizations of mathematics in his day, in particular the paradox that came to be named after him, Russell's paradox.
This modern Platonism ( sometimes rendered " platonism ," with a lower-case p, to distinguish it from the ancient schools ) has been endorsed in one way or another at one time or another by numerous philosophers ( most of whom taking a particular interest in the philosophy and foundations of logic and mathematics ), including Bernard Bolzano, Gottlob Frege, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, W. V.

Bertrand and version
The complete uncut French version was performed first at the Hamburg State Opera in 2001, then and as filmed for DVD at the Staatsoper in Vienna ( 2004 ) and at the Liceu, Barcelona ( 2006 ); its conductor in Vienna was Bertrand de Billy.
Bertrand Russell invented the first type theory in response to his discovery that Gottlob Frege's version of naive set theory was afflicted with Russell's paradox.
Plastic Bertrand has recorded a French version of Magnus Uggla's song " Vittring ".
* Girart de Vienne by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube ( late 12th / early 13th ); also found in a later shorter version alongside Hernaut de Beaulande and Renier de Gennes
It was written by Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch, writers who went on to become story editors of the syndicated version of the hit show from 1988-1989.

Bertrand and possible
This maxim, as interpreted by Bertrand Russell, states that if one can explain a phenomenon without assuming this or that hypothetical entity, there is no ground for assuming it, i. e. that one should always opt for an explanation in terms of the fewest possible causes, factors, or variables.

Bertrand and substitute
Villas-Boas opted for a younger, more inexperienced squad favouring the likes of Juan Mata, Ramires, Daniel Sturridge, David Luiz and Gary Cahill as starters and Ryan Bertrand as a substitute instead of Ferreira, Nicolas Anelka, Alex, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard.

Bertrand and out
Bertrand Russell noted: " The argument does not, to a modern mind, seem very convincing, but it is easier to feel convinced that it must be fallacious than it is to find out precisely where the fallacy lies.
The Tractatus, as Bertrand Russell saw it ( though it should be noted that Wittgenstein took strong exception to Russell's reading ), had been an attempt to set out a logically perfect language, building on Russell's own work.
Accordingly, Richard asked to have the crossbowman brought before him ; called alternatively Pierre ( or Peter ) Basile, John Sabroz, Dudo, and Bertrand de Gurdon ( from the town of Gourdon ) by chroniclers, the man turned out ( according to some sources, but not all ) to be a boy.
Bertrand Russell's article " The Philosophy of Logical Atomism " is presented as a working out of ideas that he had learnt from Wittgenstein.
; Standards bloat: Bertrand Meyer, in a satirical essay framed as a student's request for a grade change, apparently criticized UML as of 1997 for being unrelated to object-oriented software development ; a disclaimer was added later pointing out that his company nevertheless supports UML.
Bertrand Russell points out that this does not exactly defeat the argument of Parmenides, but rather ignores it by taking the rather modern scientific position of starting with the observed data ( motion etc.
Avenue Louis Bertrand was laid out to herald a new, tree-filled residential district for the city ’ s burgeoning middle classes, many of whom employed the period ’ s best architects to design their new homes.
At the age of 12 he spent three days in a library reading Principia Mathematica and sent a letter to Bertrand Russell pointing out what he considered serious problems with the first half of the first volume.
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.
She started out as a child portrait photographer, but got a break in 1949 when she met Mechthild Nawiasky, an Observer picture editor, who asked her to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Two bureaucrats, first Bertrand ( A ) and then Morvan ( B ) enter a sixth floor apartment where they find Croker ( C ) standing centre stage in front of an open window with his back to the audience, clearly on the point of throwing himself out of it.
Dixon finally has the last laugh, as Christine finds out Bertrand was also pursuing an affair with the wife of one of Dixon's former colleagues ; she decides to pursue her relationship with Dixon.
About 1215 Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, in the introductory lines to his Girart de Vienne, set out a subdivision of the Matter of France into three cycles, which have been adopted by many modern critics as a useful means of grouping the chansons de geste.
Bertrand Russell pointed out that this raises a puzzle about the truth value of the sentence " The present King of France is bald.
Rejewski had worked out the precise interconnections of the Enigma rotors and reflector, after the Bureau had received, from French Military Intelligence Captain Gustave Bertrand, two German documents and two pages of Enigma daily keys ( for September and October of that year ).
Raymond's son and successor Bertrand followed his father's example and set out for the Holy Land in 1109, leaving his great estates at his death to his brother Alfonso Jordan.
In an article published in the American Economic Review, he and co-author Marianne Bertrand tested for the existence of race-based hiring in the Boston and Chicago labor markets by sending out identical résumés to employers, half with traditionally African American names and the other half with traditionally Caucasian names.
As Bertrand Russell pointed out much later, many of the things we consider to be laws of nature, in fact, are human conventions.
* An interview with Bertrand Tavernier: " My job is to dream and invent, and out of this produce something that will change the world "
Bertrand started out with a reputation as a conciliator, but during his last presidency was involved in armed conflict with his political opponents.
Cardinals defensive end Bertrand Berry to the Boston Globe in 2009: " The biggest thing was to get the stadium ; not being out there in Sun Devil Stadium in blistering temperatures with people not really wanting to go out there.
Bertrand du Guesclin drove the Plantagenets out in 1370 and restored Vierzon to the crown of France.
Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky were singled out for criticism by Lewy in the book ; Chomsky would later respond that " every state has its Guenter Lewys ".

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