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Karl Vogt
German philosopher
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theories of materialism
- In materialism: Modern materialism
these were Ludwig Büchner and Karl Vogt. The latter is notorious for his assertion that the brain secretes thought just as the liver secretes bile. This metaphor of secretion, previously used by P.-J.-G. Cabanis, a late 18th-century French materialist, is no longer taken seriously, because to most philosophers it does…
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