Bertrand Russell on happiness
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) approaches happiness within analytic philosophy. Logicism holds that mathematics is reducible to logic; type theory aimed to block paradoxes such as Russell’s own. The theory of descriptions analyzes definite descriptions so that empty reference need not posit nonexistent entities. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets happiness most directly—useful for searches such as “bertrand russell quotes on happiness.”
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