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Clarence Irving Lewis (April 12 1883 – February 3 1964) usually cited as C. I. Lewis was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician he later branched into epistemology and during the last 20 years of his life he wrote much on ethics.

birth date
1883-04-12
birth place
Stoneham Massachusetts
death date
1964-02-03
death place
Cambridge Massachusetts
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Roderick Chisholm, Robert Paul Wolff, Willard Van Orman Quine, Roderick Firth, Nelson Goodman, William Frankena
influenced by
Josiah Royce, Ralph Barton Perry
main interest
Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophical logic
notableIdea
Pragmatism, Modal logic, Qualia
philosophicalSchool
Analytic philosophy

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