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Jevons

[ jev-uhnz ]

noun

  1. William Stanley, 1835–82, English economist and logician.


Jevons

/ ˈdʒɛvənz /

noun

  1. JevonsWilliam Stanley18351882MEnglishSOCIAL SCIENCE: economistPHILOSOPHY: logician William Stanley. 1835–82, English economist and logician: introduced the concept of final or marginal utility in The Theory of Political Economy (1871)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mr. Jevons speaks of Agamemnon's "confidence in the delusive dream" as at variance with his proceedings, and would excise II.

His father, Thomas Jevons, a man of strong scientific tastes and a writer on legal and economic subjects, was an iron merchant.

As Jevons says: "A word with two distinct meanings is really two words."

Strictly speaking, the first statement of Jevons is too narrow.

However, Mr. Jevons thinks that rhapsodists, anxious to recite straight on from the dream to the battle, added II.

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