biography
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| (1705–57)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, physician, and psychologist, born in Armley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, at first for the Church, but changed direction and became a successful medical practitioner. His Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty and his Expectations (1749) relates psychology closely to physiology, and develops a theory of the association of sensations with sets of ideas which forms part of an associationist tradition running from Hume through to Mill and Spencer. |
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