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    Charlie Dunbar Broad FBA (30 December 1887 – 11 March 1971), usually cited as CD. Broad, was an English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher...
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  • deontological was first used to describe the current, specialised definition by C. D. Broad in his 1930 book, Five Types of Ethical Theory. Older usage of the term...
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    concept, suggests that C. D. Broad projected this concept in Broad's 1925 article, "The Validity of Belief in a Personal God". Broad noted that the arguments...
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  • agree on the significance of the results. Nevertheless, the Philosopher C. D. Broad remarked that, "The only theory known to me which seems worth consideration...
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  • held to be closer to common-sense intuitions than the alternatives. C. D. Broad was a proponent of the theory (1923). Some modern defenders are Michael...
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  • Broad (fl. 1661–1664), British, first female printer in York, England C. D. Broad (1887–1971), English philosopher known for works such as Scientific Thought...
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  • significant metaphysical principles (e.g. as argued by CD. Broad 1933 and L. O. Mink 1960). R. D. Ingthorsson disputes this, and argues that the argument...
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    by others. Identifying the inductivist view as the scientific view, C. D. Broad once said that induction is "the glory of science and the scandal of...
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    cheesecloth to pretend they were spirits of the dead. Another researcher, C. D. Broad, wrote that ectoplasm in many cases had proven to be composed of home...
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  • pronouncement of moral value in serving others rather than oneself. Philosopher C. D. Broad defines altruism as "the doctrine that each of us has a special obligation...
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