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The Works of Robert Boyle. An Essay, Inquiring Whether and How a Naturalist should Consider Final Causes, Prop. III

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Abelard, Peter
Addams, Jane
Addison, Joseph
Alexander of Hales
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury
Anthony of Padua
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Arnold, Matthew
Ashmole, Elias
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Aureoli, Peter
Austen, Jane
Austin, John Langshaw
Ayer, Alfred Jules

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Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Roger
Baillie, Joanna
Balguy, John
Bayle, Pierre
Beauvoir, Simone de
Becket, Thomas à, Archbishop of Canterbury
Behn, Aphra
Bello, Andres
Benjamin, Walter
Bentham, Jeremy
Berkeley, George
Blake, William
Bode, Boyd Henry
Bodley, Thomas
Bonaventure, Saint
Boole, George
Boswell, James
Bottomley, Gordon
Boyle, Robert
Bradley, Francis Herbert
Bradley, Henry
Brawne, Fanny
Bridges, Robert
Brontë, Charlotte
Brown, John
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Bruno, Giordano
Burke, Edmund
Burleigh, Walter
Burney, Frances
Burns, Robert
Butler, Joseph

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Calvin, John
Carter, Elizabeth
Cassirer, Ernst
Centlivre, Susannah
Chapone, Hester
Chekhov, Anton
Chesterfield, Philip
Clare of Assisi
Clareno, Angelo
Clarke, John
Clarke, Samuel
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Coleridge, Hartley
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collingwood, Robert George
Collins, Wilkie
Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
Conway, Anne
Cowley, Hannah
Cowper, William
Cromwell, Thomas
Cudworth, Ralph
Cusa, Nicolai de

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Darwin, Charles
David of Augsburg
Davidson, Donald
Defoe, Daniel
Descartes, René
Dewey, John
Dickens, Charles
Dilthey, Wilhelm

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Edgeworth, Maria
Eliot, George (Evans, Mary Anne)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ferguson, Adam
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Fielding, Henry
Fielding, Sarah
Foucault, Michel
Fox, Richard
Francis of Assisi
Frazer, James George
Frege, Gottlob
Freud, Sigmund

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Gaskell, Elizabeth
Gay, John
Gladstone, William
Godolphin, Sidney
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gray, Thomas
Green, Thomas Hill
Griffith, Elizabeth
Grimm Brothers

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Halley, Edmond
Hanfeizi (Han Fei-tzu)
Hardy, Thomas
Hartmann, Nicolai
Haywood, Eliza
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hobbes, Thomas
Hogg, James
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Homes, Henry, Lord Kames
Hugh of Digne
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hume, David
Husserl, Edmund
Hutcheson, Frances

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Inchbald, Elizabeth
Isabelle of France

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Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
James, William
John of La Rochelle
John of Wales
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, William
Jowett, Benjamin

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Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, Søren
Knox, John
Kropotkin, Petr

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Lamb, Caroline
Lamennais, Hugues-Félicité Robert de
Laozi (Lao-tzu)
Laski, Harold J.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lewes, George Henry
Livingstone, David
Locke, John
Lombardus, Petrus
Luther, Martin
Lynch, John E.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer

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Machiavelli, Niccolo
Maistre, Joseph de
Malebranche, Nicolas
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Mandeville, Bernard
Manley, Delarivier
Mansfield, Katherine
Marlborough, John Churchill
Martineau, Harriet
Marvell, Andrew
Mengzi (Mencius)
Meredith, George
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Mill, John Stuart
Minorita, Nicholas
Montagu, Elizabeth
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Montaigne, Michel de
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
Moore, G.E.
Moore, Thomas Sturge
Mozi (Mo-tzu)

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Newman, John Henry
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nightingale, Florence

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Ockham, William of
Olivi, Peter of John
Orchellis, Guidonis de
Osborne, Dorothy
Owen, Wilfred

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Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Pascal, Blaise
Pater, Walter
Paul of Pergula
Paul of Venice
Peacock, Thomas Love
Pecham, John
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Pepys, Samuel
Piozzi, Hester Lynch
Pix, Mary
Plato
Plotinus
Poinsot, John
Pope, Alexander
Price, Richard

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Raleigh, Walter
Reeve, Clara
Reid, Thomas
Ricardo, David
Richards, Ivor Armstrong
Richardson, Samuel
Rigaud, Eudes
Robert of Bascia
Robinson, Henry Crabb
Robinson, Mary
Rochelle, John de la
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royce, Josiah

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Salisbury, John of
Santayana, George
Scheler, Max
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
Schiller, Friedrich von
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Scott, Sarah
Scott, Sir Walter
Scotus, John Duns
Sellars, Wilfrid
Seward, Anne
Shaftesbury, Anthony
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sheridan, Richard
Sidgwick, Henry
Simmel, Georg
Smith, Adam
Smith, Charlotte
Smith, Sydney
Smollet, Tobias
Southey, Robert
Spencer, Herbert
Spinoza, Benedict
Steele, Richard
Sterne, Laurence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Suarez, Francisco
Sunzi (Sun-tzu)
Swift, Jonathan
Synge, John Millington

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Talbot, Catherine
Temple, William Johnston
Temple, William, Archbishop
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thomae, Petrus
Thomas, Edward
Tolstoy, Leo
Trelawny, Edward John
Trollope, Anthony
Trollope, Frances
Trotter, Catherine

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Vico, Giambattiste

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Walpole, Horace
Wanley, Humfrey
Weber, Max
Weil, Simone
Weininger, Otto
Werla, Henrici de
Wesley, Samuel
Wharton, Edith
Wilson, Thomas
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wodeham, Adam de
Wollaston, William
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Wordsworth, Mary
Wordsworth, William
Wotton, Henry
Wright, Chauncey
Wright, Chauncey
Wycliffe, John

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Yeats, William Butler
Young, Edward

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Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu)