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Sir William Hamilton , —, Scottish philosopher.

William Hamilton, a British diplomat, archaeologist, and volcanologist, was born as the fourth son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, the Governor of Jamaica.

He was widely interested in law, physiology, and literature and was professor of history and philosophy at the Univ. Hamilton helped to reestablish the waning fame of the Scottish school of metaphysics. His "Philosophy of the Unconditioned" , a critique of Cousin 's Cours de philosophie published in the Edinburgh Review, publicized his views on the infinite, which he considered unknowable.

Under the influence of Kant , he conceived of the world that man knows as finite and conditioned in terms of space, time, and degree. In logic his attempt to "quantify the predicate" was a crude anticipation of later developments in mathematical logic.

Sir William Hamilton, KB, PC, FRS, FRSE (13 December – 6 April ) was a British diplomat, politician, antiquarian and vulcanologist who served as the Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of Naples from to After sitting in the House of Commons of Great Britain from to , he began See more.

The British academic outlook was broadened by his emphasis on the German philosophers and on Aristotle. His son, Francis, published his Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic ed. Mansel and John Veitch, 4 vol. Sir William Hamilton , —, British diplomat and archaeologist, ambassador to Naples — His fine collection of antiquities from Pompeii was sold to the British Museum in and stimulated English interest in the art of the classical civilizations.

See biography by B. Fothergill ; J. Russell, Nelson and the Hamiltons Copyright The Columbia University Press.