Abstract American philosophical realism developed in two forms: “new” and “critical” realism. While the new realists sought to ‘emancipate’ ontology from epistemology defended a direct theory of perception, critical promoted representationalist account perception thus argued for an epistemological dualism. Bertrand Russell’s early writings figured prominently both these realist camps. However, ...

A formula (x) in the one non-logical symbol " with one free variable x is Russell if the sentence :9r8x(x"r $ (x)) is logically valid. This note describes a pattern common to the classical examples of Russell formulas, adds a couple of new ones, and constructs many formulas that are near-Russell.

An adult female with typical features of Silver-Russell dwarfism gave birth to a viable infant. Despite the abnormalities in sexual development that may be associated with the Silver-Russell syndrome, fertility is not necessarily impaired, at least in females. The growth and development of children with the Silver-Russell syndrome have been studied (Silver, 1964; Tanner et al., 1975). There is,...

An unusual and rare gastric mucosal lesion histologically consisting of Russell bodies and plasma cell infiltration and termed as Russell body gastritis is presented. In the literature there are only ten such case reports and of these, seven including this present case were associated with Helicobacter pylori infection. The high rate of Helicobacter pylori infections in cases of Russell body ga...