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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Vaihinger has received more than 104,138 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hans Vaihinger is the 532nd most popular philosopher (down from 504th in 2019), the 1,478th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,420th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hans Vaihinger ranks 532 out of 1,267. Before him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Georg Henrik von Wright, Abraham Isaac Kook, Zhou Dunyi, and Hippo. After him are Saul Kripke, Polemon, Émile Boirac, Georges Canguilhem, Zeno of Sidon, and Pietro d'Abano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Hans Vaihinger ranks 33. Before him are Daniel Burley Woolfall, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Christian Krohg, Victor Adler, Pietro Gasparri, and John Louis Emil Dreyer. After him are Edmund Leighton, Ion Luca Caragiale, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Max von Gallwitz, I. L. Peretz, and John Harvey Kellogg. Among people deceased in 1933, Hans Vaihinger ranks 30. Before him are Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Erik Jan Hanussen, Albert Calmette, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, and Francesc Macià. After him are Henry Royce, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Raymond Roussel, Anna de Noailles, Anagarika Dharmapala, and Yamamoto Gonnohyōe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Vaihinger ranks 1,478 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), Melitta Bentz (1873), Walter Warlimont (1894), Christian Wulff (1959), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), and Adam Olearius (1603). After him are August Oetker (1862), Robert Siodmak (1900), Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903), Albert Bierstadt (1830), Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1758), and Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Hans Vaihinger ranks 70. Before him are Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Hermann Lotze (1817), Karl Löwith (1897), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Eduard Spranger (1882), and Hans Blumenberg (1920). After him are Karl Korsch (1886), Axel Honneth (1949), Eric Voegelin (1901), Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), and Ludwig Büchner (1824).

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