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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
David Malet Armstrong
Born: July 8, 1926
Died: May 13, 2014 (aged 87)
Bio: David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher.
Known for:
- A materialist theory of the mind (1968)
- A world of states of affairs (1997)
- Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (1989)
- Belief, truth and knowledge (1973)
- A combinatorial theory of possibility (1989)