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A Dictionary of Philosophy in the Words of Philosophers was written to provide the general public with a sampling of all major schools of philosophical thought, as presented by leading philosophers of the nineteenth century. Assembled by J. Radford Thomson, professor of philosophy in New College, London, and Hackney College, the dictionary contains essays, lectures, and other works by over 140...

FEW words are more ambiguous than the word ‘Philosophy.’ It comes to us from the Greeks, by whom it was at first used in its etymological sense as signifying the love of wisdom. The general designation ‘Philosophy’ was deemed by the Stoics to include the three sciences: Logic, the science of Thought; Physics, the science of Nature; and Ethics, the science of Conduct. In modern times the term ‘Philosophy’ has been and is employed in several different significations.
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