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Hans Vaihinger

1852 - 1933

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Hans Vaihinger (; German: [hans ˈfaɪɪŋɐ]; September 25, 1852 – December 18, 1933) was a 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Vaihinger is the 567th most popular philosopher (down from 532nd in 2019), the 1,653rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,478th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans Vaihinger ranks 567 out of 1,267. Before him are Zaki al-Arsuzi, Harriet Taylor Mill, Al-Shahrastani, Bion of Borysthenes, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Bardaisan. After him are Hu Shih, Philipp Mainländer, Nancy Fraser, Agrippa the Skeptic, Antonio Labriola, and Jean-Marie Guyau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Hans Vaihinger ranks 35. Before him are Julius Richard Petri, Calamity Jane, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Victor Adler, Terauchi Masatake, and Arnold Toynbee. After him are Edmund Leighton, Joseph Freinademetz, Théophile Delcassé, John Harvey Kellogg, Ion Luca Caragiale, and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres. Among people deceased in 1933, Hans Vaihinger ranks 36. Before him are Anna de Noailles, Carl Correns, Henry Royce, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Albert Calmette, and Francesc Macià. After him are Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Friedrich Zander, Raymond Roussel, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Sen Katayama, and Roscoe Arbuckle.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Vaihinger ranks 1,653 out of 7,253. Before him are Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706), Georg Kerschensteiner (1854), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Fritz Bauer (1903), and Wilhelm Backhaus (1884). After him are Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Jürgen Kohler (1965), Marianne Weber (1870), Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751), Christian I, Elector of Saxony (1560), and Anne Wiazemsky (1947).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans Vaihinger ranks 72. Before him are Ludwig Büchner (1824), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Carl Stumpf (1848), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Albert of Saxony (1316), and Karl Korsch (1886). After him are Philipp Mainländer (1841), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Werner Jaeger (1888), Hans Blumenberg (1920), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), and Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694).

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