Critical Notes — Chapter LI: Logical Arguments Against Points (§§ 423–431)

Primary Text: Read Verbatim Treatise Track (pp. 445–453) · Overview: Analytical Summary · Cross-Corpus Loci: Master Concordance

Historical & Cross-Corpus Commentary

Complete Reversal of 1897 EFG Chapter IV (§§196–208)

In 1897 Ch. IV, Russell held that empty space is a ‘bare possibility of relations’ leading to the antinomy of the point unless anchored in unextended material atoms; in 1903 (§428 n.), he explicitly repudiates that Hegelian antinomy.