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Bertrand Russell

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is There a Tribunal to Appeal To?

Russell's project was to turn mathematics into logic, and given that one plus one equals two, how do you tackle that to turn it into logic? So russell thinks that if he can give a definition of the number one and a defin of the operation plus one, then he'll be able to prove, using the rules of logic alone. You'll no longer have to accept it as basic sir RUSSELL gives definitions of the numbers using things he calls classes. And this enables him to complete this project. Why don't we start with an atle graling something that mike mentioned, that being influenced by idealism when he went cambridge, which would seem

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