Bertrand Russell

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'''Bertrand "Bertie" Russell''' (May 18, 1872 – Feb. 2, 1970) was a British [[mathematician]], [[pacifism|pacifist]], and [[philosopher]].  He also wrote books and essays for popular audiences; many of these were full of his signature snark about [[religion]].  [[Russell's Teapot]] is a good example of this.
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'''Bertrand "Bertie" Russell''' (May 18, 1872 – Feb. 2, 1970) was a British [[mathematician]], [[pacifism|pacifist]], [[socialist]](no, really) and [[philosopher]].  He also wrote books and essays for popular audiences; many of these were full of his signature snark about [[religion]].  [[Russell's Teapot]] is a good example of this.
  
 
His contributions to the development of the philosophy of language were significant, giving later [[Don't feed the Troll|troglodites]] at [[Conservapedia|reactionary websites]] [[cp:political correctness|plenty]] to whine about.
 
His contributions to the development of the philosophy of language were significant, giving later [[Don't feed the Troll|troglodites]] at [[Conservapedia|reactionary websites]] [[cp:political correctness|plenty]] to whine about.

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Bertrand "Bertie" Russell (May 18, 1872 – Feb. 2, 1970) was a British mathematician, pacifist, socialist(no, really) and philosopher. He also wrote books and essays for popular audiences; many of these were full of his signature snark about religion. Russell's Teapot is a good example of this.

His contributions to the development of the philosophy of language were significant, giving later troglodites at reactionary websites plenty to whine about.

Along with A. N. Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathmatica, which attempts to use symbolic logic to derive mathematics from base axioms, such as the fact that 1+1=2 . It is highly regarded by many mathematicians, but is pretty unreadable unless you have a brain the size of a planet, or no life.

Well known publications

  • History of Western Philosophy (1946)
  • Why I Am Not a Christian (1957)

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