James Beattie
Subtitle: Selected Philosophical Writings (Library of Scottish Philosophy) (Library of Scottish Philosophy)
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780907845713
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Philosophy; Aesthetics; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Philosophy / Ancient; Philosophy/Aesthetics; History & Surveys - Modern; 18th century; Filosofie.; Philosophy, Scottish; gtt
First sentence: To those who love learning and mankind, and who are more ambitious to distinguish themselves as men, than as disputants, it is a matter of humiliation and regret, that names and things have so oft been mistaken for each other; that so much of the philosopher's time must be employed in ascertaining the signification of words; and that so many doctrines, of high reputation, and of ancient date, when traced to their first principles, have been found to terminate in verbal ambiguity.