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Hans Vaihinger (German pronunciation: [hans ˈfaɪɪŋɐ]; September 25 1852 – December 18 1933) was a German philosopher best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of ‘As If’) published in 1911 but written more than thirty years earlier.Vaihinger was born in Nehren Württemberg Germany near Tübingen and raised in what he himself described as a very religious milieu.

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birth date
1852-09-25
birth place
Nehren Baden-Württemberg
death date
1933-12-18
death place
Halle (Saale)
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
George Kelly (psychologist), Alfred Adler, James Hillman
influenced by
Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, African Spir, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Karl Forberg
main interest
Idealism, Positivism
notableIdea
Nominalism, Instrumentalism, Fictionalism
philosophicalSchool
Neo-Kantianism

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