Our Knowledge of the External World

'Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and acheived fewer results than any other branch of learning ...I believe that the time has now arrived when this unsatisfactory state of affairs can be brought to an end' - Bertrand Russell So begins Our Knowledge of the Eternal World, Bertrand Russell's classic attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logico-analytical method in philosophy.