This important work was abandoned by Russell under the impact of Wittgenstein's ideas. It was first published in 1984 and is presented here for the first time in a handy student edition, with an introduction by Elizabeth Ramsden Eames.

Bertrand Russell, Elizabeth Ramsden Eames, Kenneth Blackwell

Part 1 On the Nature of Acquaintance; Chapter 1 Preliminary Description of Experience; Chapter 2 Neutral Monism; Chapter 3 Analysis of Experience; Chapter 4 Definitions and Methodological Principles in Theory of Knowledge; Chapter 5 Sensation and Imagination; Chapter 6 On the Experience of Time; Chapter 7 On the Acquaintance Involved in Our Knowledge of Relations; Chapter 8 Acquaintance with Predicates; Chapter 9 Logical Data; Part 2 Atomic Propositional Thought; Chapter 10 The Understanding of Propositions; Chapter 11 Analysis and Synthesis; Chapter 12 Various Examples of Understanding; Chapter 13 Belief, Disbelief, and Doubt; Chapter 14 Truth and Falsehood; Chapter 15 Self-Evidence; Chapter 16 Degrees of Certainty;