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Jaakko Hintikka

1929 - 2015

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Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (; Finnish: [ˈhintikːɑ]; 12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaakko Hintikka has received more than 203,638 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jaakko Hintikka is the 667th most popular philosopher (up from 685th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Finland (up from 74th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Philosopher.

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  • 8.14

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  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jaakko Hintikka ranks 667 out of 1,267. Before him are Leo the Mathematician, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Dignāga, Mario Bunge, Stein Rokkan, and Alfred Schmidt. After him are Guarino da Verona, Jean Wahl, Yang Xiong, Pierre Hadot, Hossein Nasr, and Cheng Yi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jaakko Hintikka ranks 141. Before him are Kateb Yacine, Burhan Sargun, Vladimír Menšík, Vasily Shukshin, Branko Zebec, and John Conyers. After him are Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Eva Schloss, Poul Schlüter, Christos Sartzetakis, Alain Tanner, and Zillur Rahman. Among people deceased in 2015, Jaakko Hintikka ranks 103. Before him are Ieng Thirith, Geraldine McEwan, Omar Karami, Eileen Essell, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Franzl Lang. After him are Halldór Ásgrímsson, André Brink, Adrian Frutiger, Hyon Yong-chol, Guy Ligier, and Chea Sim.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Jaakko Hintikka ranks 68 out of 751. Before him are Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (1757), Bernhard Crusell (1775), Väinö Linna (1920), Mika Kaurismäki (1955), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), and Kaija Saariaho (1952). After him are Eero Aarnio (1932), Juha Kankkunen (1959), Marco Hietala (1966), Juhani Aho (1861), Aarre Merikanto (1893), and Leif Segerstam (1944).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Finland

Among philosophers born in Finland, Jaakko Hintikka ranks 2. Before him are Georg Henrik von Wright (1916). After him are Edvard Westermarck (1862), and Eino Kaila (1890).

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