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Stanislaw Lesniewski
(30 Mar 1886 - 13 May 1939)
Polish logician and mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1 quote)
Being of the opinion that, if an object is the class of some a (e.g., people, points, square circles), then it actually consists of a, I always rejected … the existence of theoretical monstrosities like the class of square circles, understanding only too well that nothing can consist of something which does not even exist.
— Stanislaw Lesniewski
(1927). As quoted in Rafal Urbaniak, Leśniewski’s Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (2013), 113.
See also:
- 30 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Lesniewski's birth.
- Leśniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics, by Rafal Urbaniak. - book suggestion.