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Alexander Bain on Belief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

James C. S. Wernham
James C. S. Wernham
Affiliation:
Carleton University
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Philosophy , Volume 61 , Issue 236 , April 1986 , pp. 262 - 266
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1986

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References

1 Pierce, C. S. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Hartshorne, and Weiss, (eds) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1934),5.12.Google Scholar

2 Max, Fisch, ‘Alexander Bain and the Genealogy of Pragmatism’, Journal of the History of Ideas (1954), 413–444.Google Scholar

3 The title of one of Fisch's sections is ‘Bain's Theory of Belief’.

4 Bain, A., Mental and Moral Science, 3rd edn (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872), Bk 4, Ch. 8, 371–385.Google Scholar

5 Braithwaite, R. B., ‘The Nature of Believing’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 33, 129–146, especially note, p. 133.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 Wittgenstein, L., Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, Barrett, C. (ed.) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970), 62.Google Scholar

7 A. Bain, op. cit., Appendix, ‘Note on Belief’, 100.

8 For a much fuller account, see my article, ‘Bain's Recantation’, forthcoming in Journal of the History of Philosophy.