Chapter ID: CBB000082209

Reason, faith, and alienation in the Victorian fin-de-siècle (1999)

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Description ``This paper is about two men, a positivist philosopher and statistician, and a Catholic writer and thinker, each of whom wrote a book on method under the title of a grammar. The Catholic is John Henry Newman; the positivist is Karl Pearson. Their respective titles are An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent and The Grammar of Science.


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Authors & Contributors
Magnello, M. Eileen
Aldrich, John
Baker, Gerald A.
Berkove, Lawrence I.
Farrall, Lyndsay A.
Gillham, Nicholas Wright
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Modernism/Modernity
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
English Historical Review
History of Science
Publishers
Duke University
Marquette University Press
Routledge
Concepts
Mathematics
Science
Probability and statistics
Eugenics
Statistics
Belief and doubt
People
Pearson, Karl
Newman, John Henry
Galton, Francis
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
Bateson, William
Abbott, Edwin Abbott
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
England
Russia
United States
Institutions
University of London
Royal Statistical Society
Statistical Society of London
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