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Also Known As	Maximilien-Paul-Émile Littré
Born	February 1, 1801 • Paris • France
Died	June 2, 1881 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study	Auguste Comte • philosophy

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

Auguste Comte

French philosopher

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

French mathematician and philosopher

Ernest Renan

French scholar

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

French philosopher and humanist

Victor Cousin

French philosopher and educator

Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

French philosopher

Furetière, engraving by G. Edelinck, 1689, after a portrait by Seue

Antoine Furetière

French author

John Stuart Mill

British philosopher and economist

Bertrand Russell

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Herbert Spencer

British philosopher

Willard Van Orman Quine

American philosopher

Eugen Dühring

German philosopher and economist

Richard Congreve

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Frederic Harrison

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

René Descartes

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Gabriel Marcel

French philosopher and author

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