An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

by Bertrand Russell

Overview

Bertrand Russell is concerned in this book with the foundations of knowledge. He approaches his subject through a discussion of language, the relationships of truth to experience and an investigation into how knowledge of the structure of language helps our understanding of the structure of the world.

This edition includes a new introduction by Thomas Baldwin, Clare College, Cambridge

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135861759
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Bertrand Russell

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 What Is a Word?; Part 2 Sentences, Syntax, and Parts of Speech; Part 3 Sentences Describing Experiences; Part 4 The Object-Language; Part 5 Logical Words; Part 6 Proper Names; Part 7 Egocentric Particulars; Part 8 Perception and Knowledge; Part 9 Epistemological Premisses; Part 10 Basic Propositions; Part 11 Factual Premisses; Part 12 An Analysis of Problems concerning Propositions; Part 13 The Significance of Sentences; Part 14 Language as Expression; Part 15 What Sentences indicate; Part 16 Truth and Falsehood; Part 17 Truth and Experience; Part 18 General Beliefs; Part 19 Extensionality and Atomicity; Part 20 The Law of Excluded Middle; Part 21 Truth and Verification; Part 22 Significance and Verification; Part 23 Warranted Assertibility; Part 24 Analysis; Part 25 Language and Metaphysics;

Editorial Reviews

'Its brilliance and subtlety, though great, are no more than we should have expected from its author. What we might not so confidently have foreseen is the sapient breadth and judicial calm of its judgements.' - Times Literary Supplement

'A profound and difficult discussion of the nature of knowledge, written by the most clear-headed of modern philosophers.' - New Statesman

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