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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in "Plato's Symposium" oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Born August 4, 1834 • Kingston upon Hull • England
Died April 4, 1923 (aged 88) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study probability theory • Venn diagram • categorical proposition • syllogism

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Bertrand Russell
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Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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John Stuart Mill
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Arthur Eddington
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George Boole
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William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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