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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 90,436 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Richard Avenarius is the 423rd most popular philosopher (down from 385th in 2019), the 1,267th most popular biography from France (down from 1,091st in 2019) and the 59th 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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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Avenarius ranks 423 out of 1,081. Before him are Ernesto Laclau, Leszek Kołakowski, Maine de Biran, Buddhaghosa, Peter Sloterdijk, and Chantal Mouffe. After him are Franciscus Patricius, Emmanuel Mounier, Ge Hong, Michel de Certeau, Étienne Gilson, and Damascius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Richard Avenarius ranks 18. Before him are Elisabeth of Wied, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Benito Pérez Galdós. After him are Walther Flemming, Georg von Hertling, Camillo Sitte, Oscar Montelius, Hermann Schwarz, and Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1896, Richard Avenarius ranks 21. Before him are Edmond de Goncourt, José Rizal, Ambroise Thomas, Louis-Jules Trochu, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, and John Langdon Down. After him are Frederic Leighton, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Ichiyō Higuchi, Ernst Engel, and Maurice de Hirsch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Richard Avenarius ranks 1,267 out of 6,011. Before him are Renata of Lorraine (1544), Claude, Duke of Guise (1496), François Cluzet (1955), Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894), Albert Calmette (1863), and Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208). After him are Sigebert II (602), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Édouard Vuillard (1868), Vanessa Paradis (1972), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), and Jean Giraudoux (1882).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Richard Avenarius ranks 59. Before him are Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Étienne Cabet (1788), Alain de Lille (1117), Ernest Gellner (1925), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), and Maine de Biran (1766). After him are Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Michel de Certeau (1925), Étienne Gilson (1884), Michel Serres (1930), Alain de Benoist (1943), and Petrus Ramus (1515).

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