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Salomon Maimon
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Salomon Maimon | |
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 Salomon Maimon | |
| Born | Shlomo ben Joshua[2] 1753 |
| Died | 22 November 1800 |
| Education | Gymnasium Christianeum |
| Notable work | Essay on transcendental philosophy
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| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | German idealism German skepticism[1] |
Main interests | Epistemology, metaphysics, ethics |
Notable ideas | Critique of Kant's quid juris and quid facti,[2] the Doctrine of Differentials (die Lehre vom Differential),[2] the Principle of Determinability (der Satz der Bestimmbarkeit)[2][3] |
Salomon Maimon (/ˈmaɪmɒn/; German: [ˈmaɪmoːn]; Lithuanian: Salomonas Maimonas; Hebrew: שלמה בן יהושע מימון Shlomo ben Yehoshua Maimon; 1753 – 22 November 1800) was a philosopher born of Lithuanian Jewish parentage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, present-day Belarus. His work was written in German and in Hebrew.
- ^ Bransen, Jan. The Antinomy of Thought: Maimonian Skepticism and the Relation between Thoughts and Objects. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.
- ^ a b c d Kelley, Andrew. "Solomon Maimon (1753–1800)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ The Principle of Determinability is the thesis that we can distinguish between the subject and the predicate of a given synthesis.
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