“It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important… because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves…”

—  Bertrand Russell

An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s

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