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(16941746), Brit. theologian and metaphysician; 6. N. of Ireland; ed. Glasgow Univ., 1910-16; became minister of a di enting congregation in Dublin, and established a school; though a di enter, he was on good terms with the bp’s of the Irish Church; in 1729 became prof. of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow; many Eng. and Irish di enters came to study under him. His writings deal with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, of which the last are best known. held man has a number of Senses—consciousne , sense of beauty, a public sense, a moral sense, sense of the ridiculous, etc., of ‘which the ‘moral sense’ is fundamental. His philosophy follows Locke in many ae (not in all), and is in opposition to es,