“ " What Is Truth ? ” by Bertrand Russell

An early three-volume technical work written with A. N. Whitehead sought to prove that the fields of mathematics could be derived from logic. The anecdote is told by G. H. Hardy 1 where Russell reported he dreamed that Principia Mathematica, his three-volume massive study, was being weeded out by a student assistant from library shelves two centuries hence. About the work.. .. In the chapter "Truth and Falsehood" in his Problems of Philosophy, 2 Russell advances the " correspondence " theory of truth. On this theory, truth is understood in terms of the way reality is described by our beliefs. A belief is false when it does not reflect states-of-affairs, 1. An American pure mathematician known for his toast, " Here's to pure mathematics, may it never find an application. " (Most of Hardy's theoretical studies, as things turned out, found applications.)