Vaihinger, Hans
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Birthname | Karl Eugen Johannes Vaihinger | ||||
born on | 25 September 1852 at 16:30 (= 4:30 PM ) | ||||
Place | Nehren bei Tübingen, Germany, 48n2620, 9e04 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m9e04 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of 'As if'), published in 1911 although its statement of basic principles had been written more than thirty years earlier. As a follower of Kant, he developed the theory that everything is fiction.
Vaihinger died on 18 December 1933 at age 81 in Halle, Province of Saxony.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided Lutheran Church birth and baptism registry entry (Nehren, 1852, no. 24): "25 Sept Abs 4½ Uhr" (25 Sept, 4:30 o'clock in the evening).
Previously this entry had same data but with place of Weidenstetten, rated C (quoting Cirkels collection).
Categories
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Philosopher/ Humanist
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 81)
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy (Theory of maya)