Russell wrote an early work titled 'Mysticism and Logic' in which he argued against methodologies rooted in Hegel, Bergson, and Bradley, which claimed intuitive knowledge of the whole or immediate awareness of being in its totality, because Russell does not believe there are any internal relationships between atomic facts that would ground such mystical intuition.

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one of his first books was called mysticism and logic in which...he repudiated the methodology of people like Baron Sun and Bradley

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A History of Philosophy | 74 Bertrand Russell -- Logical Atomismwheatoncollege
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