People and Society

Type Theory Type theory, in one sense, is the view that some category of abstract entities—sets, in the simplest example, but there are...

Bas van Fraassen Bas van Fraassen was born in Goes, in the Netherlands, on April 5. He lived in Holland until he was fifteen years old,...

Hans Vaihinger Hans Vaihinger, the German philosopher of the “as if,” was born in a devout home near Tübingen. Although he developed un...

Giovanni Vailati Giovanni Vailati, the Italian analytical philosopher and historian of science, was born at Crema, Lombardy. He studied...

Value and Valuation The terms value and valuation and their cognates and compounds are used in a confused and confusing but widespread ...

Paul Valéry As a law student in Montpellier, Valéry published poems and befriended such influential authors as André Gide and Stéphane ...

Giambattista Vico Born in Naples, Italy, in 1668, Giambattista Vico is best known for his critique of the Cartesian method and his phil...