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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Welsh theologians, Bertrand Russell, John Cowper Powys, Richard Price, David Williams, Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, Thomas Coke, John Lewis, Richard Ithamar Aaron, William Wroth, Robert Recorde, Mark Rowlands, W. D. Davies, William Erbery, Daniel Williams, Griffith Griffith, Samuel Ifor Enoch, William Richard Williams, David Oswald Thomas, William David Davies, John Fitzgerald, Charles Edwards, Martyn Evans, John Tudno Williams, Trystan Owain Hughes, Edward Powell, Martin Wilding Davies, John Davies of Hereford, Henry Owen, Griffith Powell, George Botterill, Gwilym Edwards, H. H. Price, Robert Owen, Thomas Vaughan, Rowland Williams, John Edward Daniel, David Walter Thomas, Evan Lorimer Thomas, Huw Owen, Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, Jonathan Edwards, Robert Roberts, Hywel Lewis, John Jones, Henry Lewis James, Henry Jones, John Robert Jones, Richard Jones, Charles Williams, David James Jones. Excerpt: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he imagined himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense. He was born in Wales, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protege Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." His work has had a considerable infl...
