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Quotes from The Analysis of Mind — Bertrand Russell

1872–1970

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Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

The Analysis of Mind (1921)

There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

The Analysis of Mind (1921)

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

The Analysis of Mind (1921)

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