Richard Shute (6 November 1849 – 22 September 1886) was a British classicist and logician. Richard Shute was the only son of Richard Shute of Sydenham,

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. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1868. However, he transferred to

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, where he matriculated in 1870, graduating B.A. in 1872. He was a senior student at Christ Church, Oxford from 1872 to 1886, and tutor from 1876 to 1882. He died of

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at Oxford in 1886. At the time of his death he had been appointed professor of logic at

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. Shute's ''Discourse on Truth'' (1877) was adapted into German by Goswin Karl Uphues.Uphues, ''Grundlehren der logik. Nach Richard Shute's Discourse on truth'', 1883. Shute's

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essay on the Aristotelian writings was published posthumously: there Shute held that the surviving works were not written by

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himself, but had been "filtered at least through other minds". John Foster Kirk, 'Shute, Richard, 1849–1886', ''A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary of English literature'', 2 vols., 1891.

Works

* ''Essays on certain logical questions'', Oxford, London: James Parker and Co., 1874. * ''A Discourse on Truth'', London, 1877. * (ed.) ''Aristotle's Physics, book VII, a transcript of the Paris ms. 1859 collated with the Paris mss. 1861 and 2633 and a manuscript in the Bodleian library'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882. * ''On the History of the Process by which the Aristotelian Writings arrived at their Present Form: with a Brief Mention of the Author'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. (

essay for 1882.)

References

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