Clarence Irving Lewis

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academic human logician philosopher

Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → human → logician → philosopher →
academicDiscipline	analytic philosophy → philosophy of language → philosophy of logic →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1883 →
dateOfDeath	1964 →
educatedAt	Harvard University →
employer	Harvard University →
familyName	Lewis →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → logic → modal logic → philosophy → pragmatism → theory of knowledge →
genre	non-fiction →
givenName	Clarence →
hasHonorificTitle	Professor →
influenced	Nelson Goodman → Roderick Chisholm → Wilfrid Sellars → Willard Van Orman Quine →
influencedBy	Charles Sanders Peirce → Josiah Royce → William James →
knownFor	conceptual pragmatism → contributions to modal logic systems → development of strict implication in modal logic → work on the theory of knowledge →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
middleName	Irving →
movement	pragmatism →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableIdea	conceptual pragmatism → modal systems S1–S5 → strict implication →
notableWork	A Survey of Symbolic Logic → An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation → Mind and the World-Order → Symbolic Logic →
occupation	university professor →
placeOfBirth	United States of America →
placeOfDeath	United States of America →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Cambridge, Massachusetts →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Willard Van Orman Quine →	doctoralAdvisor