PHILOSOPHER

Richard Avenarius

1843 - 1896

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Richard Ludwig Heinrich Avenarius (19 November 1843 – 18 August 1896) was a German-Swiss philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Avenarius has received more than 94,106 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Richard Avenarius is the 373rd most popular philosopher (up from 423rd in 2019), the 1,060th most popular biography from France (up from 1,263rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Philosopher.

Richard Avenarius is most famous for his work on the theory of knowledge. He argued that we cannot know the world as it really is, but we can only know the world as it appears to us.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Avenarius ranks 373 out of 1,267. Before him are Ban Zhao, John Searle, Nasir Khusraw, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Gerson, and Gershom Scholem. After him are Nicephorus Gregoras, Leo Strauss, Ágnes Heller, Gennadius Scholarius, Hilary Putnam, and Masanobu Fukuoka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Richard Avenarius ranks 16. Before him are William McKinley, Gabriel Tarde, Elisabeth of Wied, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia. After him are Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Benito Pérez Galdós, Oscar Montelius, Walther Flemming, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, and Georg von Hertling. Among people deceased in 1896, Richard Avenarius ranks 18. Before him are John Everett Millais, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. H. Holmes, Edmond de Goncourt, and Louis-Jules Trochu. After him are Ambroise Thomas, John Langdon Down, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Ichiyō Higuchi, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and Emil du Bois-Reymond.

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In France

Among people born in France, Richard Avenarius ranks 1,060 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Mabillon (1632), Maurice Ronet (1927), and Léon Bonnat (1833). After him are Richard III, Duke of Normandy (1001), Robert de Sorbon (1201), Aimery of Cyprus (1172), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Joseph Liouville (1809), and Pierre Larousse (1817).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Richard Avenarius ranks 50. Before him are Félix Guattari (1930), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Edgar Morin (1921), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), René Girard (1923), and Jean Gerson (1363). After him are Étienne Gilson (1884), Alain de Lille (1117), Étienne Cabet (1788), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Alain de Benoist (1943), and Pierre d'Ailly (1350).

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