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Born February 24, 1909 • Baku • Russian Empire
Died August 27, 1988 (aged 79) • Ithaca • New York
Subjects Of Study Ludwig Wittgenstein • mathematics
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
George Herbert Mead
American philosopher
Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke
American logician and philosopher
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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