Friedrich Waismann
Friedrich Waismann · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Vienna Circle philosopher of language and mathematics.
1896, Vienna, Austria — 1959, Oxford, England
Austria · United Kingdom
Friedrich Waismann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Vienna Circle philosopher of language and mathematics.
Waismann was a philosopher and mathematician of the Vienna Circle, a close interlocutor of Wittgenstein whose ideas he recorded and developed, and an original contributor on language, verifiability and the 'open texture' of concepts. He fled the Nazis and settled at Oxford. He was of Jewish origin.
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Vienna Circle philosopher of language and mathematics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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