chapter "On Our Knowledge of General Principles"
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"On Our Knowledge of General Principles" is a chapter in Bertrand Russell's philosophical work The Problems of Philosophy that examines how we come to know abstract, foundational truths such as logical and mathematical principles.
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book chapter
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philosophical text → |
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distinguish different kinds of knowledge
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explain how we justify belief in general principles → |
| argues |
that certain general principles are known a priori
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that some knowledge is independent of particular sense-data → |
| author |
Bertrand Russell
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| contrasts |
knowledge of general principles with knowledge of particular facts
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| examines |
how we know logical truths
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how we know mathematical truths → the nature of general principles → |
| genre |
philosophy
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to clarify the status of logical and mathematical knowledge
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| hasMainExample |
basic principles of arithmetic
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logical laws such as the law of non-contradiction → |
| includedIn |
early 20th-century analytic philosophy canon
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| influencedBy |
British empiricism
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Gottlob Frege → Immanuel Kant → logicism → |
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English
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| partOf |
The Problems of Philosophy
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| philosophicalIssue |
certainty of logical and mathematical truths
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relation between experience and a priori knowledge → source of necessity in general principles → |
| philosophicalTradition |
analytic philosophy
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| positionInWork |
later chapter
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| publicationYear |
1912
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| publishedIn |
1912
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| publisherOfContainingWork |
Williams and Norgate
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| subgenre |
epistemology
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| topic |
a priori knowledge
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analytic truths → contingent truths → empiricism → epistemic justification → foundational truths → induction → knowledge of abstract truths → logical principles → mathematical principles → necessary truths → principles of logic → principles of mathematics → rationalism → self-evidence → synthetic truths → |
| workContainedIn |
The Problems of Philosophy
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The Problems of Philosophy
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