Philosophers
- Felix Adler – rationalist intellectual
- Hannah Arendt – political theorist
- Ernst Bloch – Marxist philosopher
- Rudolf Carnap – philosopher
- Adolf Grünbaum – philosopher
- Francis Lieber – jurist/political philosopher
- Nicholas Rescher – philosopher
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“Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When philosophers use a word—”knowledge,” “being,” “object,” “I,” “proposition,” “name”—and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?—What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.”
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