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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 84 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIGWART (1789-1844)  , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at Remmingsheim in See also:Wurttemberg, and died in See also:Stuttgart . He became See also:professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Tubingen, and wrote numerous books on the See also:history of philosophy:—Uber den Zusammenhang See also:des Spinozismus mit der Cartesianischen Philosophic (1816) ; Handbuch zu Vorlesungen fiber See also:die Logik (1818, 3rd ed., 1835); Der Spinozismus (1839); and Geschichte der Philosophic (1844) . His son, CHRISTOPH VON See also:SIGWART (1830-1894), after a course of philosophy and See also:theology, became professor at See also:Blaubeuren (18J9), and eventually at Tubingen, in 1865 . His See also:principal See also:work, Logik, published in 1873, takes an important See also:place among See also:recent contributions to logical theory . In the See also:preface to the first edition, Sigwart explains that he makes no See also:attempt to appreciate the logical theories of his predecessors; his intention was to construct a theory of See also:logic, See also:complete in itself . It re-presents the results of a See also:long and careful study not only of German but also of See also:English logicians . In 1895 an English See also:translation by See also:Miss H . Dendy was published in See also:London . See also:Chapter v. of the second See also:volume is especially interesting to English thinkers as containing a profound examination of the See also:Induction theories of See also:Bacon, J . S . See also:Mill and See also:Hume . Among his other See also:works are Spinozas neu entdeckter Traktat von Gott, dem Menschen and dessen Gliickscligkeit (1866); Kleine Salmi/ten (1881); Vorfragen der Ethik (1886) .

The Kleine Schriften contains valuable criticisms on See also:

Paracelsus and See also:Bruno .

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