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PRAM (Du. praam)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRAM (Du. praam) , the name of a See also:flat-bottomed See also:boat or See also:barge used as a " lighter " for discharging and loading See also:cargo in the ports of the Baltic and See also:North See also:Sea. The word, which is See also:common in various forms to all the See also:languages bordering on those seas, is originally See also:Slavonic; its ultimate See also:etymology connects it with the words found in all Indo-See also:European languages which are to be traced to the See also:root See also:par-, to go through, travel; cf. " fare," " See also:ferry," " far," Gr. w6pos, way, See also:Lat. See also:port are, carry, &c. See also:born at Landsberg on the See also:Lech on the 28th of See also:January 182o, and died on the 14th of See also:September 1888 at Oberstdorf. In 1843 he became See also:doctor of See also:philosophy at See also:Munich See also:Observatory, where he was made See also:professor in 1859. He was also a member of the See also:Academies of See also:Berlin and Munich. Strongly in agreement with the Hegelian tradition, he defended and amplified it in See also:Die gegenwkrtige Aufgabe der Philosophic (1852) and Versteken and Beurteilen (1877). In these See also:works he emphasized the identity of the subjective and the See also:objective for consciousness, and the fact that the See also:perception of this unity is See also:peculiar to See also:man. He is more important, however, as a commentator and See also:scholar, and made valuable contributions to the study of See also:Aristotle. He published Aristoteles uber die Farben (1849), Aristoteles' acht See also:Bucher der Physik (1857), and numerous See also:minor articles on smaller points, such as the authenticity of the See also:thirty-eight books of the Problems. The See also:work by which he is best known is the Geschichte der Logik See also:im Abendland (See also:Leipzig, 1855–1870). Chr.

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Sigwart, in the See also:preface to the first edition of his See also:Logic, makes " See also:special mention " of the assistance he obtained from this See also:book.

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