"The only one of Lockes successors who attempted,and achieved, any considerable improvement and extension of the analytical part, and thereby added anything to the explanation of the human mind on Locke's principles, was Hartley."
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David Hartley (philosopher)
David Hartley (8 August 1705 – 28 August 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology.
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