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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Kronecker, 1865
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician
Louis Couturat
French philosopher and logician
Philolaus
Greek philosopher
Sir Michael A.E. Dummett
British philosopher

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