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Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume 1777-1855, English politician and reformer. Although a Tory in early life, he sat in Parliament from 1818 to 1855 (with only one interruption) as an indefatigable Radical. Hume was a leader in almost all the reform issues of the day. He fought for repeal of the Combination Acts (laws ag...
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John Hume
John Hume 1937-, Northern Irish political leader, grad. St. Patrick's College, Univ. of Ireland (B.A., 1958; M.A., 1964). A moderate Catholic, he devoted his career to the peaceful settlement of sectarian conflicts in his homeland. A founding member (1970) of the nonsectarian, nonviolent Social Dem...
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David Hume
David Hume , 1711-76, Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived (1734-37) in France, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40). His other philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; a simplified...
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Wallace Hume Carothers
Wallace Hume Carothers , 1896-1937, American chemist, b. Burlington, Iowa. He received his doctorate at the Univ. of Illinois in 1924, then taught organic chemistry there and at Harvard. In 1928 he was made head of the research group in organic chemistry of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours company in Wi...
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James Beattie
James Beattie 1735-1803, Scottish poet and essayist. Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he later became professor of moral philosophy there. His fame in his own lifetime rested on two works, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770), an attack on Hume, and The Minstrel (1771-74...
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belief
belief in philosophy, commitment to something, involving intellectual assent. Philosophers have disagreed as to whether belief is active or passive; René Descartes held that it is a matter of will, while David Hume thought that it was an emotional commitment, and C. S. Peirce considered it a...
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Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth
Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth or Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth , 1641-1724, Scottish statesman. Devoted to Presbyterianism, he opposed the policies of the duke of Lauderdale , took part in the unsuccessful rebellion of the 8th earl of Argyll in support of the duke of Monmouth , and fled to Fra...
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Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvill , 1636-80, English clergyman and philosopher. He was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II and prebendary of Worcester Cathedral. An exponent of occasionalism and precursor to Hume, Glanvill sought to prove the inefficacy of all secondary causes, which he regarded as merely the occasi...
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determinism
determinism philosophical thesis that every event is the inevitable result of antecedent causes. Applied to ethics and psychology, determinism usually involves a denial of free will , although many philosophers have attempted to reconcile the two concepts. Thomas Hobbes, identifying the will with ...
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Edward Adelbert Doisy
Edward Adelbert Doisy , 1893-1986, American biochemist, b. Hume, Ill., grad. Univ. of Illinois (B.A., 1914), Ph.D. Harvard, 1920. For his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K he shared with Henrik Dam the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Doisy and others synthesized vitamin K in ...
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