Human Understanding, Volume I: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts
by Stephen Edelston Toulmin
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0691019967
- ISBN 13
- 9780691019963
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Princeton University Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 520 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book first published in 1972). No subsequent volumes exist. Trade paperback, creases in spine and front wrap, shelf wear to especially to heel and corners, faint foxing to top edge, light soil to other edges. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on half title, her underscoring and notes on approximately 105 pages including title page, and on rfep and inside back cover.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-46
- Title
- Human Understanding, Volume I: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts
- Author
- Stephen Edelston Toulmin
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691019967
- ISBN 13
- 9780691019963
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- TOULMIN, PHILOSOPHY, CONCEPT-FORMATION, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, SCIENCE, MORAL REASONING, RHETORIC, EVOLUTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Anthropology;
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Berthoff Books
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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