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John Cook Wilson

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According to Wikipedia, John Cook Wilson was an English philosopher, Wykeham Professor of Logic and Fellow of New College. Early life and career John Cook Wilson was born in Nottingham, England, in 1849. He was the son of James Wilson, a Methodist minister. After studying at Derby Grammar School, 1862–67, Cook Wilson went up with a scholarship to Balliol College in 1868, where he read both Classics under H. W. Chandler and Mathematics under H. J. S. Smith. He graduated with a double 'double-first', gaining both firsts in Mathematical and Classical Moderations , and then firsts in Mathematics and Literae Humaniores or 'Greats' . He received the Conington Prize in 1882. He studied logic under Hermann Lotze in Göttingen.

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