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All knowledge, we admit, is in the last resort "empirical," in the sense that it arises out of facts, that is, out of experiences which we cannot altogether fashion as we please to suit our own convenience, or our own sense of what is fitting or desirable, but have largely to accept as they come to us.

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Alfred Edward Taylor

Alfred Edward Taylor

Born: December 22, 1869
Died: October 31, 1945 (aged 75)
Bio: Alfred Edward Taylor was a British idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of Plato.
Known for:
  1. Plato, the man and his work (1908)
  2. Elements of Metaphysics (1903)
  3. The mind of Plato (1922)
  4. Plato's biography of Socrates (1917)
  5. Problem of conduct (1901)

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