Kurt Grelling
Kurt Grelling · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Logician, formulated the Grelling–Nelson paradox
1886, Berlin, Germany — 1942, Auschwitz concentration camp, occupied Poland
Germany
Kurt Grelling is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Logician, formulated the Grelling–Nelson paradox
Kurt Grelling was a German logician and philosopher, a member of the Berlin Circle of logical empiricism, who in 1908 formulated the Grelling–Nelson paradox concerning self-referential adjectives. He was Jewish; after fleeing Nazi Germany to Belgium he was captured and murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. His paradox remains a standard example in the study of semantic antinomies.
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Logician, formulated the Grelling–Nelson paradox
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