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Born May 18, 1891 • Germany
Died September 14, 1970 (aged 79) • Santa Monica • California
Founder “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science”
Subjects Of Study axiom of reducibility • probability theory • space • a priori knowledge • analytic proposition • constitution theory • formal logic • induction • verifiability principle

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