"As a philosopher Stout is quite difficult to situate. His relation to English Idealism is complicated. We know that he advanced a position that Metz describes as âa âmeetingâ of pragmatist, realist and idealist motivesâ. Metz goes on to label Stout either an âold realistâ or a ânew realistâ but definitely not an idealist. Passmore, more accurately, describes Stout as âpre-eminently ⌠a philosopher of the middle wayâ. It is in this way that Stout is usually painted by much of the literature â a philosopher who was interested in reconciliation and compromise. This I think is true of his philosophy after about 1900."
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Omar Nasim, Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World (2008), p. 20.
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George Stout
George Frederick Stout, FBA (6 January 1860 â 18 August 1944), usually cited as G. F. Stout, was a leading English philosopher and psychologist.
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