biography
pronunciation:
[riykhenbakh]
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| (1891–1953)
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| biography:
| Philosopher of science, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He studied in Berlin, Munich, Göttingen, and Erlangen, then became professor of philosophy at Berlin (1926–33), Istanbul (1933–8) and Los Angeles (from 1938). He was an early associate of the Vienna School of logical positivists, and with Rudolph Carnap founded the journal Erkenntnis in 1930 (which reappeared in 1975 in the USA). He made an important technical contribution to probability theory, in which two truth tables are replaced by the multivalued concept of ‘weight’, and wrote widely on logic and the philosophical bases of science in such works as Theory of Probability (1935), Elements of Symbolic Logic (1947), and The Rise of Scientific Philosophy (1951) (trans titles). |
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