Philosophical Legacy
The effect of his thought on philosophy initially seemed destined to be slight; his work was rediscovered, however, by Edmund Husserl and Kazimierz Twardowski, both students of Franz Brentano. Through them, Bolzano became a formative influence on both phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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