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Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

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The Problems of Philosophy was written by Bertrand Russell and published in 1912.

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Chapter 1 - Appearance and Reality
Chapter 2 - The Existence of Matter
Chapter 3 - The Nature of Matter
Chapter 4 - Idealism
Chapter 5 - Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
Chapter 6 - On Induction
Chapter 7 - On our Knowledge of General Principles
Chapter 8 - How A Priori Knowledge is Possible
Chapter 9 - The World of Universals
Chapter 10 - On Our Knowledge of Universals
Chapter 11 - On Intuitive Knowledge
Chapter 12 - Truth and Falsehood
Chapter 13 - Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion
Chapter 14 - The Limits of Philosophical Knowledge
Chapter 15 - The Value of Philosophy

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