The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll

identities are fundamental to all logic. We will now

peated enunciation of the identity "Whatever will be, will be"; and the Italian equivalent of this makes up an appreciable part of one of Mr. Robert Hichens' novels. Further, the identity "Life is Life" has not only been often accepted as an explanation for a particul

nclusion, now, is false; for, since the world is round-as geography books still maintain by arguments which strike every intelligent child as invalid[20]-what is

em is notorious. But the fault seems partly to lie in the uncomplicated nature of the logical problems which are dealt with in them. Thus it is no uncommon thing

identities P, whose truth is undoubted, and say that P implies Q. Thus, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, according to The Times of March 27, 1909, professed to deduce the conclusion that it is not right that women should have votes from the premisses that "man is man" and "wom

inciple of identity. In the course of the Debate on the Budget of 1909, he maintained, against Mr. Lloyd George, that a joke was a joke e

ted on a large scale. If the common-sense of the reader were supposed to dismiss the possibility of water clinging to such corrugations, it might equally be supposed to d

ication will be further