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Fraser, Alexander Campbell

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Philosopher, born at Ardchattan, Argyllshire; after a university training at Edinburgh and Glasgow he entered the Free Church; was for a brief term Free Church minister of Cramond, from which he was transferred to a chair in the Free Church College, but in 1856 succeeded Sir William Hamilton as professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh, a position he held till 1891, when he resigned; his writings include the standard edition of Berkeley, with notes and a life, monographs on Locke and Berkeley in the series of "Philosophical Classics," and two vols. on the "Philosophy of Theism," being the Gifford Lectures delivered 1895-96; b . 1819.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Fraser, Alexander Campbell'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​f/fraser-alexander-campbell.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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