Tanabe Hajime

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Born	February 3, 1885 • Tokyo • Japan
Died	April 29, 1962 (aged 77) • Maebashi • Japan

Nishida Kitarō

Japanese philosopher

Yamaga Sokō

Japanese military strategist

Inoue Tetsujirō

Japanese philosopher

Hayashi Razan

Japanese scholar

Watsuji Tetsurō

Japanese philosopher and historian

Kumazawa Banzan

Japanese philosopher

Inoue Enryō

Japanese philosopher

Hatano Seiichi

Japanese scholar

Nishi Amane

Japanese philosopher

Hilary Putnam

American philosopher

Alfred North Whitehead

British mathematician and philosopher

Werner Heisenberg

German physicist and philosopher

Auguste Comte

French philosopher

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician

Rudolf Carnap

German-American philosopher

Roger Bacon

English philosopher and scientist

Robert Boyle

Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer

Arthur Eddington

British scientist

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist

John Venn

English logician and philosopher

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