The  Problems  of  Philosophy

by

Bertrand Russell

1912

 

INDEX

 

The interrogations indicate places where a view is discussed, not asserted.

 

Absolute idea, 222

Acquaintance, 68, 69, 72 ff., 170, 211

     with Self ? 78 ff.

Act, mental, 65

Analytic, 128

Appearance, 12, 24

A priori, 116, 118, 125, 127ff., 161 ff.

     mental ? 136

Arithmetic, 130

Association, 97, 101

 

Being, 156

Belief, 186 ff.

     instinctive, 37, 39

Berkeley, 18, 22, 24, 56, 60 ff., 114, 149, 151

Bismarck, 85, 89

Bradley, 148

 

Cat, 35, 36

Causality, 107, 129

China, Emperor of, 70, 116

Cogito, 28

Coherence, 190-3, 218

Colours, 11, 12, 13, 54-6, 215

Contemplation, 244

Contradiction, law of, 113, 129

Correspondence of sense-data and physical objects, 35, 38, 49, 52-3, 59, 62

Correspondence of belief and fact, 190 ff.

Critical Philosophy, 126

 

Deduction, 123

Descartes, 27, 114, 235

Description, 71, 74, 81 ff., 170

Divisibility, infinite, 227-8

Doubt, 27, 28, 40, 234

Dreams, 30, 34-5, 172, 191

Duration, 50

 

Empiricists, 114, 134

Error, 172, 186 ff., 217, 236

Excluded Middle, 113

Existence, 155 :

     knowledge of, 93, 116

Experience :

     immediate, 9, 23, 27, 61

     extended by descriptions, 92, 94, 231

 

Facts, 214

Falsehood, 187 ff.

     definition of, 201

 

Generalisation, empirical, 121, 125 166

Geometry, 120, 130

 

Hallucinations, 30, 172

Hegel, 221 ff.

Hume, 114, 129, 149, 151

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Ideas, 61 ff., 155

     abstract, 76, 149

     innate, 114

     Platonic, 142 ff.

Idealism, 58-71

     defined, 58

     grounds of, 60 ff.

Idealists, 56

Identity, law of, 113

Induction, 93-108, 123, 167

     principle of, 103, 104, 175

Inference, logical and psychological, 209

Infinity, 227 ff.

Innate, ideas and principles, 114

Introspection, 76

 

Judgment, 195-7

 

Kant, 126-41, 229

Knowledge :

     by acquaintance and by description, 70, 72-92, 170

     definition of, 204 ff.

     derivative, 171, 174-85, 210 ff, 232

     of future, 94 ff.

     of general principles, 109-26, 131     68

     of things and truths, 69, 72, 170, 225

     of universe, 40, 220, 241

     only of mental things ? 64 ff.

     theory of, 60

     philosophical, 233, 239

 

Law, general, 104, 115

Leibniz, 22, 24, 56, 114, 148

Light, 43-5

Locke, 114

Logic, 111 ff., 144, 192, 231

 

Mathematics, 119, 130

Matter, 18, 68

     existence of, 19, 20, 22, 26-41

     nature of, 42-57

Memory, 76, 180-4

Microscope, 14

Mind, 19, 81

     the only reality ? 21

     what is in the, 62 ff., 154

Monad, 148

Monadism, 148

Monism, 148

Motion, laws of, 95, 99

 

Nature of a thing, 224

Necessity, 121

 

Object of apprehension, 65-7

     of judgment, 197

 

Particular, 145

Perception, 177-9, 214

Phenomena, 134

Philosophy, value of, 237-50

     uncertainty of, 239-44

Physical objects, 18, 30 ff., 53, 81, 132, 170

Plato, 142 ff.

Principles, general, 109-26

Probably opinion, 217

Probability, 96, 102, 105, 114

Proper names, 84 ff., 145

Propositions, constituents of, 90

 

Qualities, 149, 159

Rationalists, 114, 134

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Reality, 12, 17, 24

Relations, 139, 148, 151, 159, 224-6

     multiple, 194-7

     sense of, 198

Resemblance, 150, 160

 

Self, 78 ff.

Self-consciousness, 77

Self-evidence, 176 ff.

     degrees of, 183, 215

     two kinds of, 212

Sensation, 17, 132

Sense-data, 17, 23, 27, 36, 42, 73, 132, 213

     certainty of, 28-30

Shapes, 15

Solipsism, 33-8

Space, 45 ff., 227 ff.

     Euclidean and non-Euclidean, 229

Space, physical, 47 ff.

Spinoza, 147-8

Subject, 197

Swift, 122

 

Thing in itself, 134

Thought, laws of, 113, 136

Time, 50 ff., 135, 160, 227 ff.

Touch, 16

Truth, 186 ff.

     definition of 210

 

Uniformity of Nature, 98

Universals, 76, 81, 142-57, 231

     knowledge of, 158-73, 213

     not mental, 151 ff.

 

Verbs, 147 ff.

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