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Bertrand Russell
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  • A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell, who lived and died in the same century as Gass, once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it."†  (source)
  • At sixteen, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's famously abstruse masterpiece Principia Mathematica.†  (source)
  • According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order.†  (source)
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  • A lot of it began with Russell and Whitehead and a book they wrote called Principia Mathematical "Bertrand Russell?"†  (source)
    Bertrand Russell = English philosopher and mathematician instrumental in pioneering symbolic logic (1872-1970)
  • Unlike Phaedrus, this man was an international celebrity at thirty-five, a living legend at fifty-eight, whom Bertrand Russell has described as "by general agreement, the most eminent scientific man of his generation."†  (source)
  • He spent hours waiting on Marguerite Benson—taking her shopping or off to movies he himself couldn't stand, talking with her politely about Thorstein Veblen and Bertrand Russell and Karl Marx (her false teeth clicking all the while she talked), swivving her night after night with a look of wild rapture on his face and a prayer that it soon be over in his head.†  (source)
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