Critical Notes — Chapter III, Section B: The Axioms of Metrical Geometry (§§ 141–179)

Primary Text: Read Verbatim Treatise Track (pp. 147–177) · Overview: Analytical Summary · Cross-Corpus Loci: Master Concordance

Historical & Cross-Corpus Commentary

Crucial Contrast Between 1897 (§§146–154) and 1903 (PoM §§390–391)

Comparing EFG §147 with PoM §390 illuminates the entire arc of Russell’s thought and Hoenen’s critique: in 1897 Russell treated Free Mobility as an a priori condition of spatial comparison; by 1903, convinced by Cantor and Weierstrass that motion reduces to static occupation of different positions at different times, he declared superposition ‘a tissue of nonsense’ and replaced mobility with static congruence relations.