Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Saul Kripke
Born: November 13, 1940
Died: September 15, 2022 (aged 81)
Bio: Saul Aaron Kripke was an American philosopher and logician. He was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University.
Known for:
- Naming and Necessity (1980)
- Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982)
- Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers (2011)
- Introduction au paradoxe de Wittgenstein (1996)