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Bain, Alexander
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Born at Aberdeen, professor of Logic in the university, and twice Lord Rector, where he was much esteemed by and exercised a great influence over his pupils; his chief works, "The Senses and the Intellect," "The Emotions and the Will," and "Mental and Moral Science"; has written on composition in a very uninteresting style; his psychology, which he connected with physiology, was based on empiricism and the inductive method, to the utter exclusion of all a priori or transcendental speculation, such as hails from Kant and his school; he is of the school of John Stuart Mill, who endorsed his philosophy; b . 1818.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bain, Alexander'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bain-alexander.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bain, Alexander'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bain-alexander.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.