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KANT (IMMANUEL)
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION OF CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, KANT'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK. "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... [His methods] dominated western philosophical thought throughout the nineteenth century, as they do today" (PMM).
Provenance: Noel Kemp Smith (1872-1958, Scottish philosopher), with a loosely inserted 2-page autograph letter dated 15 March 1929 to "Miss Macleod", thanking her for "procuring for me a copy of the 1st edition of Kant's Critique... the copy you send is in excellent condition... P.S. Please convey to the owner my thanks for the great favour he has done me". Kemp Smith was appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh in 1918, a post he held until his retirement in 1945. In 1918 he published Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason', and his translation of Critique was published in 1929.
Saleroom notices
Footnote should read Norman NOT Noel Kemp Smith

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