Constitution and minutes of the Philosophy Club [manuscript] 1935, 1938-1944, 1947, 1947-1949, 1953-1954, 1958.

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Constitution and minutes of the Philosophy Club [manuscript] 1935, 1938-1944, 1947, 1947-1949, 1953-1954, 1958.

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The collection also contains four letters of Charles K. Davenport, 1942, and an article by Jacob Klein "The concept of numbers in Greek mathematics and philosophy," 1939. The minutes for 1935 contain papers delivered at the meetings : "The sensationalist doctrine in the philosophy of Leibniz" by William Weedon; "Systematic nature of truth prolegomena to a future theory of truth"; "Franz Braentano's interpretation of medieval philosophy" by Etienne Gilson, "Definition and discovery in Plato's 'The sophist'" by G. Thomas Preer, "A solution of the paradoxes which avoids the theory of types" by Frederick Brenton Fitch, and "What is the philosophy of science" by Charles K. Davenport.

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