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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. xv + [i] + 214 + [1] pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, in unclipped dust wrapper, with synopsis on front wrapper with edge wear at head and tail of spine, which is sunned. Extremities worn and foxing of flyleaves, preliminaries, edges and some margins; otherwise a very good copy. Inscription of Anthony Sainsbury Trinity College Oxford on front pastedown. In this book an attempt is made to give an elementary introduction to the applications in philosophy of what is now sometimes called the analytic method. It considers the problem of the External World and our Knowledge of it; Freewill and Determinism, with some remarks on Causation and conclusions on Pre-existence; the Mind-Body Problem; and the nature of Truth and Judgement. By Arthur John Wisdom (1904-93), Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, 1952-68.