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1675–1729, English philosopher and divine. His chief interest was rational theology, and, although a critic of the deists, he was in sympathy with s...
1880–1947, American philosopher, b. Minsk, Russia, grad. College of the City of New York, 1900, Ph.D. Harvard, 1906. He emigrated to the United Stat...
(Ray Charles Robinson), 1930–2004, African-American musician and composer, b. Albany, Ga. Blinded at age seven, he was raised in Florida and at 16 b...
(t m–mä´z kämpän l´lä) (KEY) , 1568–1639, Italian Renaissance philosopher and writer. He entered the Dominican order at the age of 15, and ...
1631–1718, English philosopher. He was bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In his De legibus naturae [on natural laws] (1672) he first propounded the ...
( ty n´ bôn ´ d kôNd yäk´) (KEY) , 1715–80, French philosopher who developed the theory of sensationalism (i.e., that all knowledge comes fro...