Abstract

In Our Knowledge of the External World1 and other early works, Bertrand Russell describes a program to construct the external world from sensibilia. Central to this program is Russell's construction of space from perspectives. In this paper, I shall examine this last construction. In section 1 below, I will describe Russell's constructive method; in section 2 I will discuss Russell's notion of a perspective; in section 3 I will describe Russell's construction of space from perspec tives; and in Section 4 I will present reasons of a technical sort for thinking this construction to be a failure.

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