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Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.


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Russell had agreed to write an introduction to explain why it was important because it was otherwise unlikely to have been publiLudwig Wittgensteind: it was difficult if not impossible to understand and Wittgenstein was unknown in philosophy. He wrote: "I was shown into Frege's study.

He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947. He described philosophy however as "the only work that gives me real satisfaction. In the words of his friend and colleague Georg Henrik von Wright: "He was of the opinion.

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