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Born
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Born
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Graduated Oberlin College with a BA in Mathematics and a commendation on mathematical philosophy.
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Published first revision of PhD dissertation on Whitehead and Russell's "Principia Mathematica"
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Published "A System of Logic" a revision of his dissertation.
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Published "Mathematical Logic"
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Received PhD with a dissertation in probability
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Quote: “Science is not a substitute for common sense but an extension of it.” (1957, 229). - Copied from Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Conceptualized "Self Naturalism" as a means to justify science as the "best:" method of epistemological knowledge. - Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Wrote an Algorithm and Incomplete Proof of the "Diophantine equations" - Britannica
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Proof Completed by Yuri Matiyasevich on the "Diophantine equations" - Britannica
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Quote: “In our account of how science might be acquired we do not try to justify science by some prior and firmer philosophy, but neither are we to maintain less than scientific standards. Evidence must regularly be sought in external objects, out where observers can jointly observe it….” (1974, 34f.) - Copied from the Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Proposes that "meaning" and "truth" are inherently connected in his work "The Meaning of Meaning" - Britannica
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Defended the position of “internal realism” over “metaphysical realism", a marked major change in his lifelong ideology and philosophy. - Britannica
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Quote: “the recognition that it is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described” (1981, 21) - copied from the Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Published "From Stimulus to Science"
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Retired Professor Emeritus from Harvard - Britannica
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Died
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Died