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Hamilton William (1788–1856)

Scottish idealist philosopher and logician; held that cognition was determination of the conditions of existence of the object investigated; denied objective truth and gravitated towards agnosticism. Hamilton held that "absolute", i.e., material reality, is cognisable through supernatural revelation only. He ranged himself beside Kant in accepting apriorism and moral postulates as the foundation of religious faith.

He introduced into logic the doctrine of the quantification of the predicate, thus attempting to reduce inference to equation and logic to calculation. Hamilton was a forerunner of the exponents of modern mathematical logic. Among his best-known works is Metaphysics and Logic (lectures edited and published posthumously in four volumes, 1859–60).

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(Hamilton) город, административный центр и основной порт британского владения Бермудские острова. Расположен на о. Бермуда. Около 3 тыс. жителей (1968). Узел пароходных сообщений. Судоремонт. Курорт.