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Littré

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[lee-tray] / liˈtreɪ /

noun

  1. Maximilien Paul Émile 1801–88, French lexicographer and philosopher.


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This fact, as is judiciously remarked by M. Littré, is not valid against the plan of M. Comte's classification, but discloses a slight error in the detail.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

Let us say the same thing in simpler terms: M. Littré professes the doctrines of a school which ignores the Creator in nature, and Providence in history.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Henry Downton

But as he was then a détenu at Clairvaux, Bastide and Littré filled the editorial chair during the interregnum.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

M. Littré on ‘demoniac affections,’ a subject, in his opinion, worthy of closer study. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

M. Littré, the only thinker of established reputation who accepts that character, is a disciple only of the Cours de Philosophie Positive, and can see the weak points even in that.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

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