Lévy-Bruhl

British

/ levibrul /

noun

Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples

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L. Lévy-Brühl formulates Littré's idea more clearly.

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Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French.

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Professor L. Levy-Bruhl of the philosophical faculty of the Sorbonne was on the program to discuss "Research As It Is Today."

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Society for Comte is not, as Lévy-Bruhl puts it, "a polyp."

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For him life and death do not appear to be but incidents in an endless cycle of birth, death, and re-incarnation ad infinitum, such as pictured by Lévy-Bruhl;75 yet, in many instances, his acts and beliefs fit in closely with the theory outlined by that author.

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