trendelenberg

Updated: June 8, 2025

But it is a mode so prevalent that Trendelenberg speaks of it, justly enough, as 'the ancient Hysteron-Proteron of Abstraction. The doctrine of these philosophers appears to us unfounded, but we cannot call it unmeaning. To this doctrine we cannot subscribe.

George Grote - Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.'