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Thomas De Quincey

(15 Aug 1785 - 8 Dec 1859)

English essayist and critic.

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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

— Thomas De Quincey

'Kant in His Miscellaneous Essays', Blackwood's Magazine, 1830, 28, 244-68.

See also: | Mathematics (226)

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