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  • Bain, detail of an oil painting by Sir George Reid; in the collection of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland
    Alexander Bain

    …and a two-volume work on Logic (1870) containing a detailed account of the application of logic to the natural sciences. He also devoted himself to the study of psychology, adopting a rigorously scientific approach. Bain sought to find physical correlatives for such abstract concepts as ā€œideaā€ and ā€œmindā€ and stressed…

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    …and a two-volume work on Logic (1870) containing a detailed account of the application of logic to the natural sciences. He also devoted himself to the study of psychology, adopting a rigorously scientific approach. Bain sought to find physical correlatives for such abstract concepts as ā€œideaā€ and ā€œmindā€ and stressed…

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