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The Philosophy of Nonsense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

B. F. C. Costelloe
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To treat of Nonsense in any connection with the abnormal developments of the human mind may seem to some popular philosophers a solecism; but it is not. The connection is very real, and even, if one examines it, essential. The absurd in farce, or in dreams, or in insanity consists simply in the eccentricity of our association of ideas.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 26 , Issue 116 , January 1881 , pp. 520 - 526
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1881

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