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Also Known As Maximilien-Paul-Émile Littré
Born February 1, 1801 • Paris • France
Died June 2, 1881 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Auguste Comte • philosophy
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Ernest Renan
French scholar
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
Cousin, Victor
Victor Cousin
French philosopher and educator
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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Furetière, engraving by G. Edelinck, 1689, after a portrait by Seue
Antoine Furetière
French author
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and economist
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Dühring, c. 1900
Eugen Dühring
German philosopher and economist
Richard Congreve
British philosopher
Frederic Harrison, 1920
Frederic Harrison
British author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
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