Dictionary in the history of ideas: Studies of Select Pivotal Ideas. Vol I: ’Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts’ to ’Design Argument’

724 Pages·1973·108.55 MB·English

by  Wiener Philip (ed.)

the History
of
Studies o/ Select®
Pivotal Ideas
Volume
I
CHARLES SCRIBNER*S SONS, PUBLISHERS
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DICTIONARY OF
THE HISTORY OF IDEAS

DICTIONARY
THE
OF HISTORY
OF
IDEAS
Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
PHILIP WIENER
P.
EDITOR IN CHIEF
VOLUME
I
Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts
t o
Design Argument
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK
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"Agnosticism"
from Language, Truth and Logic, by A. Ayer, copyright 1935,
J.
by permission of Victor Collancz Ltd.
"Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle"
from Virgil, Aeneid, trans. H. R. Fairclough, Loeb Classical
Library, by permission of Harvard University Press
from Camoens: The Lusiads, trans. W. C. Atkinson, copyright
1952, by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.
from The Odes of Pindar, trans. Richmond Lattimore, copyright
1947 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
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from Richard of Saint Victor, ed. Clare Kirchberger, 1957,
by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers
"Catharsis"
from Tfie Oxford Translation ofAristotle, trans. W. D. Ross,
copyright 1925, by permission of The Clarendon Press, Oxford
"Cosmology"
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1931, by permission of The Clarendon Press, Oxford
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