Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum
Polish logician and philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (December 5, 1899—April 1942) was a Polish logician and philosopher. She published some twenty research papers along with translations into Polish of three books by Bertrand Russell.[1] The main focus of her writings was on foundational problems related to probability, induction and confirmation.[2] She is noted especially for authoring the first printed discussion of the Raven Paradox[3] which she credits to Carl Hempel[4][5] and the probabilistic solution she outlined to it.[2] Shot by the Gestapo in 1942,[1] she, like her husband Adolf Lindenbaum, and many other eminent representatives of Polish logic, shared the fate of millions of Jews murdered on Polish soil by the Nazis.[6]
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Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum | |
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Born | Janina Hosiasson (1899-12-06)December 6, 1899 |
Died | 1942 |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Known for | Raven paradox |
Spouse | Adolf Lindenbaum |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Logic, mathematics |
Institutions | University of Warsaw |
Thesis | Justification of Inductive Reasoning (1926) |
Doctoral advisor | Tadeusz Kotarbiński |
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