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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Carveth Read</b> (geb. <a href="16._M%C3%A4rz" title="16. März">16. März</a> <a href="1848" title="1848">1848</a> in <a href="Falmouth_(Cornwall)" title="Falmouth (Cornwall)">Falmouth</a>; gest. <a href="6._Dezember" title="6. Dezember">6. Dezember</a> <a href="1931" title="1931">1931</a> in <a href="Solihull" title="Solihull">Solihull</a>) war ein englischer <a href="Philosoph" title="Philosoph">Philosoph</a>, <a href="Logik" title="Logik">Logiker</a> und <a href="Psychologe" title="Psychologe">Psychologe</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Werk">Leben und Werk</h2></div>
<p>Read studierte in Cambridge, Leipzig und Heidelberg. Von 1903 bis 1911 war er Professor für Philosophie an der <a href="University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a>, danach bis 1921 Dozent für vergleichende Psychologie am <a href="University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a>. Read war in seiner Logik von <a href="John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a> beeinflusst, in der Metaphysik Idealist.
</p><p>Im Vorwort zur vierten Auflage seines Buches <i>Logic: Deductive and Inductive</i> (1920) nennt er seine wichtigsten Einflüsse. Er erklärt: „Das Werk kann im Großen und Ganzen als der Schule von <a href="John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">Mill</a> zugehörig betrachtet werden, dessen <i>System der Logik</i> und <a href="Alexander_Bain_(Philosoph)" title="Alexander Bain (Philosoph)">Bains</a> <i>Logik</i> es zutiefst verpflichtet ist. Von den Werken lebender Autoren haben mir die <i>Empirische Logik</i> von <a href="John_Venn" title="John Venn">Venn</a> und die <i>Formale Logik</i> von <a href="John_Maynard_Keynes" title="John Maynard Keynes">Keynes</a> am meisten geholfen.“<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Kapitel 22 von <i>Logic</i> sagt Read: „It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong“ (Es ist besser, vage richtig zu liegen als genau falsch),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> die ursprüngliche Quelle des viel zitierten Aphorismus „It is better to be roughly right than exactly wrong“ (Es ist besser, ungefähr richtig zu liegen als genau falsch), der oft fälschlicherweise John Maynard Keynes zugeschrieben wird.
</p><p>In seinem <i>The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<i>Der Ursprung des Menschen und seines Aberglaubens</i>), das ursprünglich im Jahr 1920 veröffentlicht wurde, geht er dem Ursprung des <a href="Aberglauben" class="mw-redirect" title="Aberglauben">Aberglaubens</a> nach und deckt die enge Beziehung zwischen <a href="Animismus_(Religion)" title="Animismus (Religion)">Animismus</a>, <a href="Magie" title="Magie">Magie</a> und Phantasie auf. Seine Ansichten über <a href="Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> und Magie wurden von <a href="Edward_E._Evans-Pritchard" title="Edward E. Evans-Pritchard">E. E. Evans-Pritchard</a> geschätzt, der feststellt, dass das Buch „der Aufmerksamkeit der <a href="Anthropologe" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropologe">Anthropologen</a> fast völlig entgangen zu sein scheint“.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publikationen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Publikationen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Publikationen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>On the Theory of Logic: An Essay</i> (1878)</li>
<li><i>Logic. Deductive and Inductive</i> (1898; 4th ed., enlarged and partly rewritten 1920)</li>
<li><i>The Metaphysics of Nature</i> (1905; 2. A, 1908)</li>
<li><i>Natural and Social Morals</i> (1909)</li>
<li><i>The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions</i> (1920)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Siehe_auch">Siehe auch</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="George_Grote" title="George Grote">Grote</a> Professor für Philosophie des Geistes und Logik<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Edward_E._Evans-Pritchard" title="Edward E. Evans-Pritchard">Edward E. Evans-Pritchard</a>: <i>Theorien über primitive Religionen.</i> 1981, ISBN 351807959X (<i>Theories of Primitive Religion</i>; dt.)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://runeberg.org/nfcb/0572.html">Read, Carveth</a>, in: Nordisk familjebok (zweite Auflage, 1915) / <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://runeberg.org/nfcq/0674.html">Supplement</a> (1925)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Read%2C%20Carveth%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Carveth%20Read%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Read%2C%20Carveth%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Carveth%20Read%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Read%2C%20C%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Carveth%20Read%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Read%2C%20Carveth%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Carveth%20Read%22%29%20OR%20%28%221848-1931%22%20AND%20Read%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Digitalisate bei archive.org</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise_und_Fußnoten"><span id="Einzelnachweise_und_Fu.C3.9Fnoten"></span>Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">C. Read: <i>Logic: Deductive and Inductive</i>, London: Simkin, Marshall (1920), v. – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm">Digitalisat</a> („The work may be considered, on the whole, as attached to the school of Mill; to whose <i>System of Logic</i>, and to Bain's <i>Logic</i>, it is deeply indebted. Amongst the works of living writers, the <i>Empirical Logic</i> of Dr. Venn and the <i>Formal Logic</i> of Dr. Keynes have given me most assistance.“)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">4. A., S. 351 - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm">Digitalisat</a> </span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/originofmanhissu00readuoft/page/n5/mode/2up">Digitalisat</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">E. E. Evans-Pritchard, S. 77 (siehe auch S. 86)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">englisch <i>Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic</i></span>
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