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James Frederick Ferrier

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Epistemology

#69

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Metaphysics

#95

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Ethics

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According to Wikipedia, James Frederick Ferrier was a Scottish metaphysical writer and philosopher. He introduced the word epistemology in philosophical English, as well as coining agnoiology for the study of ignorance. Education and early writings Ferrier was born at 15 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet. He was educated at the Royal High School, the University of Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford, and subsequently, his metaphysical tastes having been fostered by his intimate friend, Sir William Hamilton, spent some time at Heidelberg studying German philosophy.

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Institutes of metaphysic (8)
Lectures on Greek philosophy (2)
Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains, Ed. By Sir A. Grant and E.L. Lushington (1)
Proposition XXI. What the absolute in cognition is. (0)
Proposition XXII. The contingent conditions of knowledge. (0)
Proposition VIII. The ego in cognition. (0)
Proposition XIV. The phenomenal in cognition. (0)
Proposition VIII. The object of all ignorance. (0)
Proposition XV. What the phenomenal cognition is. (0)
Proposition III. The inseparability of the objective and the subjective. (0)
Proposition XIX. What the relative in cognition is. (0)
Proposition V. Matter and its qualities per se. (0)
Proposition XVI. The substantial in cognition. (0)
Proposition II. The object of all knowledge. (0)
Proposition XI. What absolute existence is necessary. (0)
Proposition X. Sense and intellect. (0)
Proposition VIII. What absolute existence is not. (0)
Proposition XI. Presentation and representation. (0)
Proposition III. What there can be ignorance of. (0)
Proposition I. The three alternatives as to absolute existence. (0)
Proposition V. Ignorance of matter per se. (0)
Proposition XVIII. The relative in cognition. (0)
Proposition IV. Ignorance of objects per se. (0)
Proposition IX. The origin of knowledge. (0)
Proposition XX. The absolute in cognition. (0)
Proposition VI. Ignorance of the universal and particular. (0)
Proposition IX. The ego per se. (0)
Proposition XVII. What the substantial in cognition is. (0)
Proposition III. A premiss by which the third alternative is eliminated. (0)
Proposition VII. Ignorance of the ego per se. (0)
Proposition VI. The universal and the particular in cognition. (0)
Proposition XII. Matter per se again. (0)
Proposition II. Ignorance remediable. (0)
Proposition VII. What the universal and the particular in cognition are. (0)
Proposition X. What absolute existence is. (0)
Proposition XIII. The independent universe in thought. (0)
Proposition I. The primary law or condition of all knowledge. (0)
Proposition IV. Eliminates the third alternative. (0)
Proposition V. The remaining alternatives. (0)
Lectures on Greek Philosophy, and Other Philosophical Remains Edited by Sir Alexander Grant and E.L. Lushington (0)
Proposition I. What ignorance is. (0)

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