Footnote kg97

kg97. The reader will notice that this essay pays a great deal of attention to Russell. Why, you say, so much fuss about Russell's efforts to see beyond the veil into the mystery of human existence? After all, this essay is supposed to be a critique of Ryle, not Russell. I reply that one may well doubt that Ryle could have ever solved the alleged mind-body problem, given the earnest, but ultimately unsuccessful, efforts of a philosopher of Russell's stature. In addition, I found it very useful, in in my examination of Ryle's case, to follow the course of Russell's thinking over the decades.

The number of times Russell's name appears in the revised essay rivals that of Ryle's name, with about 170 for the former and 200 for the latter.