The Definition of the Thing: With Some Notes on Language

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The Definition of the Thing: With Some Notes on Language

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A classic volume by a noted philosopher, available again. John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers, edited by Joseph Epstein. While deeply indebted to Plato, Kant, and Hegel, Miller arrived at a strikingly original reinterpretation of the history of philosophy, which, he believed, resolved long-standing epistemological and moral problems generated by that history. In The Definition of the Thing, an unusually provocative and original essay, Miller had works out a number of the basic contentions of his mature philosophy.

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John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers, edited by Joseph Epstein.

The Definition of the Thing: With Some Notes on Language,John William Miller,W. W. Norton & Company,0393300595,Definition (Logic),Facts (Philosophy),General,History & Surveys - Modern,Language and languages,Logic,Philosophy,Semantics,Semantics (Philosophy),History: theory & methods

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