An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth [Hardcover]

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition??Pascal Engel??Preface? Introduction? 1. What is a Word?? 2. Sentences, Syntax, and Parts of Speech? 3. Sentences Describing Experiences? 4. The Object-Language? 5. Logical Words? 6. Proper Names? 7. Egocentric Particulars? 8. Perception and Knowledge? 9. Epistemological Premisses? 10. Basic Propositions? 11. Factual Premisses? 12. An Analysis of Problems Concerning Propositions? 13. The Significance of Sentences: A. General. B. Psychological. C. Syntactical? 14. Language as an Expression? 15. What Sentences Indicate ? 16. Truth and Falsehood, Preliminary Discussion? 17. Truth and Experience? 18. General Beliefs? 19. Extensionality and Atomicity? 20. The Law of Excluded Middle? 21. Truth and Verification? 22. Significance and Verification? 23. Warranted Assertibility? 24. Analysis? 25. Language and Metaphysics.??Index

In?An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage.?This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Pascal Engel, placing Russell's book in helpful philosophical context.

Bertrand Russell (18721970). A celebrated mathematician and logician and gifted philosopher, Russell remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.

In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage. Investigating how we can be justified in what we know and how we can reconcile knowledge of the physical world with immediate sensory knowledge, Russell sets out to reconcile the various aspects of his thought since his early logicist periodthe view that mathematical truths are ultimately logical truths.

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