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Quotation by Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell (82)
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher, mathematician, activist, pacifist. The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918).
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