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Bernard Bolzano
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Bernard Bolzano (UK: , US: ; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; Italian: [bolˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views.
Bolzano wrote in German, his native language. For the most part, his work came to prominence posthumously.
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The chief business of the logician is to classify arguments; for all testing clearly depends on classification. The classes of the logicians are defined by certain typical forms called syllogisms. For example, the syllogism called _Barbara_ is as follows: S is M; M is P: Hence, S is P. Or, to put words for letters— Enoch and Elijah were men; all men die: Hence, Enoch and Elijah must have died.
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
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Despite the great wealth of words which European languages possess, the thinker finds himself often at a loss for an expression exactly suited to his conception, for want of which he is unable to make himself intelligible either to others or to himself. To coin new words is a pretension to legislation in language which is seldom successful; and, before recourse is taken to so desperate an expedient, it is advisable…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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For the reason, however, that their criticism was not accompanied with a knowledge of the nature of such a standard based on philosophical principles, a lack of definition and continuity was inseparable from this standard; and they at one time attempted too much and again at another too little. Despite, therefore, of the fact that it may be reckoned to their credit that they have once more drawn attention to and…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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