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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

S. C. Brown
S. C. Brown*
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Honorary Assistant Director The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 12 , March 1978 , pp. vii - xix
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NOTES

1 Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences des Arts et des Metiers (1751–1765)Google Scholar. The article ‘Philosopher’ is translated in Encyclopedia: Selections, trans, by Hoyt, N. Y. and Cassirer, T., Library of Liberal Arts, Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.Google Scholar

2 In his Siemens de philosophie (1759), Oeuvres complètes de d'Alembert (Paris, 1821–1822), Vol. I, p. 122.Google Scholar

3 See, for example, Flew, Antony's commentary on the first Enquiry, Hume's Philosophy of Belief (London: Routledge).Google Scholar

4 Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot (1751). Trans. Schwab, Richard N., Library of Liberal Arts Edition, Indianapolis (Bobbs-Merrill) 1963, p. 81.Google Scholar

5 Enquiry Sect. IV, Pt. II, Oxford University Press Edition of Hume's Enquiries (3rd edition, 1975), p. 32.Google Scholar

6 Quoted in Jean D'Alembert, by Grimsley, Ronald (Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 122 Google Scholar. I am indebted to Professor Grimsley's book for introducing me to this dimension of D'Alembert's thought.

7 Quoted by Grimsley, , op. cit. p. 112.Google Scholar

8 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume's Enquiries, p. 110.Google Scholar

9 Respectively Enquiries, p. 174 f.Google Scholar and Preliminary Discourse, p. 94.Google Scholar

10 Among these are Cassirer, Ernst's The Philosophy of the Englightenment (1932) (Princeton University Press, 1951)Google Scholar, Gay, Peter's The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (1969), 2 volumes (London: Wildewood House, 1973)Google Scholar and Hampson, Norman's shorter The Enlightenment (Penguin Books, 1968).Google Scholar