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Born May 29, 1786 • Gosport • England
Died September 9, 1867 (aged 81) • Utica • New York
Notable Works “Treatise on Language; or, The Relation Which Words Bear to Things”
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Polish philosopher
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British manufacturer
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American linguist
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and economist
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
John Searle
John Searle
American philosopher
Burke, Edmund
Edmund Burke
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William James, 1880
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
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Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
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Judith Jarvis Thomson
American philosopher
A.J. Ayer
A.J. Ayer
British philosopher
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John Dewey
American philosopher and educator

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