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Record W4366809721 · doi:10.1353/rss.2015.0002

Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics [introductory paragraph]

2015· article· en· W4366809721 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
G. E. Moore

Bibliographic record

VenueRussell the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhilosophy and Theoretical Science
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsParagraphPhilosophy of mathematicsObject (grammar)MathematicsEpistemologyPrincipal (computer security)PhilosophyMathematics educationCalculus (dental)Computer scienceLinguistics

Abstract

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russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 35 (winter 2015–16): 183 The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn 0036–01631; online 1913–8032 c:\users\ken\documents\type3502\red\rj 3502 053 red.docx 2015-11-12 7:16 PM oeviews RUSSELL’S PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS G. E. Moore f the philosophical books published in the United Kingdom in 1903, the most important is Mr. Russell’s Principles of Mathematics.1 In this book, Mr. Russell tells us, he has two main objects. His first object is to establish the two very important propositions (1) “that all pure mathematics deals exclusively with concepts definable in terms of a very small number of fundamental logical concepts” and (2) “that all its propositions are deducible from a very small number of fundamental logical principles.” The examination of the principal branches of pure mathematics, which is necessary to establish these two propositions, occupies the last six Parts of the book, which are entitled respectively “Number”, “Quantity”, “Order”, “Infinity and Continuity ”, “Space”, and “Matter and Motion”. In these parts there is much which cannot be easily understood without a special knowledge of Mathematics, and much which has little bearing on philosophy, except so far as it helps to establish Mr. Russell’s two main propositions; but there is much also which is of considerable importance for philosophy, quite apart from its bearing on these two propositions: in particular, Mr. Russell examines very carefully the conceptions of Infinity and Continuity, and attempts to shew that they involve no antinomies. Part i, on the other hand, is devoted to Mr. Russell’s second object—“the explanation of the fundamental concepts which mathematics accepts as indefinable”, and is almost entirely philosophical in its nature. I shall endeavour to give some account (1) of the meaning and consequences of Mr. Russell’s two propositions concerning the relation of Logic and Mathematics (2) of some of the more important points dealt with in Part i and (3) of the theory of Infinity and Continuity. Mr. Russell is eminently qualified for his task by a thorough knowledge of Mathematics and by great philosophical acumen ; and it is certain that no philosopher ought in future to handle any of the subjects discussed in this book, without taking account of the arguments advanced in it.2 1 The Principles of Mathematics. 2 [The remainder of Moore’s very long, unpublished review may be read in the Russell Archives, Rec. Acq. 116.—Ed.] l= ...

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.137
Threshold uncertainty score0.859

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.082
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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