 It would be a mistake to see Russell’s logical constructions as the product of the converse operation of a method that begins with logical analysis. Analysis was indeed the distinctive method of Russell’s realist and atomistic philosophy with the method of construction appearing only later. Russell’s new philosophy was self-consciously in opposition to the Hegelianism prevailing in philosophy at Cambridge at the end of the nineteenth century (Russell 1956, 11–13). Russell first needed to defend the process of analysis, and to argue against the view of the idealists that complex entities are in fact “organic unities” and that any analysis of these unities loses something, as the slogan was “analysis is falsification”. (1903, §439) The subject of our analysis is reality, rather than merely our own ideas: 