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In this intelligible and thought-provoking guide to the fundamentals of philosophical thought, Russell initially asks the question: Why study philosophy? In developing the answer he offers lucid considerations of such topics as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Appearance and reality
- The existence of matter
- The nature of matter
- Idealism
- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description
- On induction
- On our knowledge of general principles
- How a priori knowledge is possible
- The world of universals
- On our knowledge of universals
- Truth and falsehood
- Knowledge, error, and probable opinion
- The limits of philosophical knowledge
- The value of philosophy.