Struggling with paradoxes, infinity and the absurd itself. — What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. -Ludwig Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations. Here is when I got and then lost confidence in reasoning: Bertrand Russell struck me as a great philosopher as soon as I began reading his essays. He is extremely rational, persuasive, didactic, and clear. However, even though he achieved…