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JOHN VEITCH (1829-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:VEITCH (1829-1894)  , Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian of the Scottish border, son of a See also:Peninsular See also:veteran, was See also:born at See also:Peebles on the 24th of See also:October 1829, and educated at See also:Edinburgh University . He was assistant Iecturer successively to See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hamilton and A . See also:Campbell See also:Fraser (1856-6o) . In 186o he was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:logic, See also:metaphysics and See also:rhetoric at St See also:Andrews, and in 1864 to the corresponding chair at See also:Glasgow . In See also:philosophy an intuitionist, he dismissed the idealist arguments with some abruptness, and thereby lost much of the See also:influence gained by the force of his See also:personal See also:character . He died on the 3rd of See also:September 1894 . He will be remembered chiefly for his See also:work on Border literature and antiquities . He published See also:translations of See also:Descartes' Discours de la methode (185o) and Miditationes (1852) ; an edition of Sir W . Hamilton's lectures with memoir (1869, in collaboration with H . L . See also:Mansel); See also:Tweed, and other Poems (1875) ; See also:History and See also:Poetry of the Scottish Border (1877; ed . 1893); Institutes of Logic (1885); Knowing and Being (1889); See also:Merlin (1889); See also:Dualism and See also:Monism (1895) ; Border Essays (1896) .

See Memoir by his niece, See also:

Mary R . L . See also:Bryce (1896) .

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