biography
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| (1891–1970)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Wuppertal, W Germany. He studied at Freiburg and Jena, becoming lecturer at Vienna (1926–31), and professor of philosophy at Prague (1931–5), Chicago (1936–52), and California, Los Angeles (1954–70). He was one of the leaders of the ‘Vienna Circle’ of logical positivists. His writings include Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928, The Logical Construction of the World), Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934, Logical Syntax of Language), and Meaning and Necessity (1947), as well as semantic studies of induction and probability. |
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