{"title":"Russell on Relations, 1898: A Reconsideration","authors":"N. Griffin","doi":"10.15173/russell.v42i1.5209","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper traces the development of Russell's thinking about relations in 1898. Central to the story is what Russell called \"the contradiction of relativity\" which he thought to be endemic in the mathematical sciences. Through most of the year he tried to deal with it within the constraints of the neo-Hegelian doctrine of internal relations until, towards the end of the year, he abandoned the doctrine and with it neo-Hegelianism. Most importantly, he came to see that the contradiction of relativity showed that it was impossible to treat transitive, asymmetrical relations as internal. The paper also throws new light on Russell's earliest debts to G. E. Moore.","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15173/russell.v42i1.5209","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The paper traces the development of Russell's thinking about relations in 1898. Central to the story is what Russell called "the contradiction of relativity" which he thought to be endemic in the mathematical sciences. Through most of the year he tried to deal with it within the constraints of the neo-Hegelian doctrine of internal relations until, towards the end of the year, he abandoned the doctrine and with it neo-Hegelianism. Most importantly, he came to see that the contradiction of relativity showed that it was impossible to treat transitive, asymmetrical relations as internal. The paper also throws new light on Russell's earliest debts to G. E. Moore.
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Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies is published semiannually, in the summer and the winter, by The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster University. Both print and electron ic editions are published. From 1971 until 1999 Russell was titled Russell: the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives and was published first by McMaster University Library Press (1971–96) and then by McMaster University Press (1997–99). The ISSN of the print edition is 0036-0163; that of the electronic edition, 1913-8032. Russell is published with the assistance of grants from the Aid to Journals programme of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from McMaster’s Faculty of Humanities.