Was Russell an idealist philosopher?
No, I was decidedly not an idealist. While I acknowledged the influence of idealism early in my career, my subsequent work, particularly *Our Knowledge of the External World*, was a strong reaction against it. I championed a form of logical atomism, asserting that the world is composed of fundamental, independent entities, and that our knowledge of this world is primarily derived from sense-data. The external world, I argued, has an existence independent of our minds and is knowable through empirical observation and logical inference.
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