Abstract
Exposed in 1948, within his masterpiece on the scope and limits of human
knowledge, the epistemological tenets that Bertrand Russell regarded as fundamental
elements in the construction of scientific knowledge, are still worthy of a detailed
discussion today. Given the excellence of the author, it will not be surprising to see that
Russell's gnoseologic postulates, even for the present scientific view, address some of
the most controversial questions still to be solved in the theory of knowledge.