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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
Wilfrid Sellars

Born: May 20, 1912
Died: July 2, 1989 (aged 77)
Bio: Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States."
Known for:
- Empiricism and the philosophy of mind
- In the Space of Reasons
- Science and Metaphysics (1968)
- Essays in philosophy and its history (1974)
- Science, perception, and reality (1963)