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Born in Berlin 1882
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Moritz Schlick received his Ph.D from the University of Berlin in physics.
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Schlick's most important work that explained sciences as the act of defining events by the overall governing laws that defined the event. Ground breaking work that helped simplify events as universal.
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The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers who were attempting to understand human behavior in the 1920s. These ideas centered around the idea that only scientific facts were of any merit, if it was not settled in science it could not be factual.
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Schlick was murdered by a former student for reasons unknown. The student had been institutionalized and was known to threaten Schlick. In 1936 he shot Schlick four times causing his death.