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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Biography

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet FRSE DD FSAS (8 March 1788 – 6 May 1856) was a Scottish metaphysician. He is often referred to as William Stirling Hamilton of Preston, in reference to his mother, Elizabeth Stirling.

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Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

Doubt, Good, Good Sense, Prepense, Sinews, Sober

There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

Goal, Ignorance, Philosophize, Sorts, Two

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

Course, Human, Ignorance, Life, Life Is, Two

Read much, but not many works.

Read, Reading, Works

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

Body, Health, Healthy, Together

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

Agent, Agents, Blindly, Ignorantly, Instinct, Knowledge

Consummated science is positively humble.

Humble, Positively, Science

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

Like, Shining, Shock, Torch, Torches, Truth

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Exclusively, Metaphysics, Mind, Occupied, Sciences, Taken

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

Considered, Law, Logic, Subjects, Thought

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

Affirmed, Denied, Judgment, One Thing, Thing

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

Dependent, Distinction, Extent, Practice, Preceded, Theory

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Biography

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