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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Friedrich Waismann (21 March 1896 – 4 November 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism. He was of Jewish descent - his father being Russian, his mother German. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and became an assistant to Moritz Schlick, a collaboration that guided the trajectory of Waismenn's subsequent intellectual work and career.Waismann developed the concept of linguistic open texture, which describes the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases.Schlick, professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, was shot on the steps of the university by Johann Nelböck, one of his former students, on 22 June 1936. Schlick was among the first to explore the philosophical implications of Einstein’s theory of relativity, and also had a personal relationship with the scientist, having played with him in a chamber group after meeting him in Germany. The fact that eight of the 14 members of the Wiener Kreis school of philosophy (the group he helped found in 1924) were Jews, along with its general liberal ideology and modern, anti-speculative philosophy, secured its place in the category of the “Jewish”. In addition, his visible support of Jewish doctoral students such as Herbert Feigl, who was not able to gain a position as Privatdozent in Vienna after gaining his doctorate in 1928 due to antisemitism, and Waismann, whose position as librarian was terminated in January 1936 for the same reason, also fostered the belief that Schlick, too, was Jewish. By the time he was appointed Chair of Philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1922, the use of antisemitism as a way to express opposition to the philosophical ideals of those like Schlick was already in vogue. A group of his academic opponents unsuccessfully attempted to block his university appointment. Nelböck was tried and sentenced, but the event became a distorted cause célèbre around which crystallized the growing nationalist and anti-Jewish sentiments in the city. After the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 the assassin was released on license after serving 2 years of a 10 year sentence.When Waismann moved to Oxford, he became a key participant in J.L. Austin's series of “Saturday Morning” discussion sessions, which involved detailed discussions of a number of philosophical topics and works, including Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Frege's Grundlagen, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, and Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures. In the summer of 1930 Wittgenstein and Waismann collaborated on a project based on a principal of the form 'The sense of a proposition is the way it is verified'. A rewritten version of the proposed book appeared as "The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy" in 1965. A.W.B. Simpson, fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford from 1955-1973, wrote: I well recall the day of Waismann's funeral. Hart, who had considerable respect for him, attended, and arrived late at the Hart group, wrapped in his gown, which was soaked in heavy rain. Waismann was a Jew...and the philosophers, after silently consigning Waismann to his grave, were about to leave when Ryle lept onto a nearby tabular gravestone and delivered an extempore Periclean oration. The proceedings, attended only by philosphers, all in soggy flapping academic dress, resembled a gathering of immense crows clustered around a carrion, and excited the bewildered attention of some passing locals. But this was Oxford, and the burial took place close to the site of Osney Abbey, near the railway station, where the trains in those days always paused as a token of respect as they entered the city of dreaming spires. So was buried the Oxford philosopher who had enjoyed or perhaps suffered the longest connection with Wittgenstein.GIlbert Ryle was one of Waismann's chief supporters at Oxford, and in his Grabrede, later printed, spoke of Waismann's love of truth: We are here to say "goodbye" to Friedrich Waismann. He was our colleague and friend. But above all we learned from him. We think through him and he thinks through us. He was exiled from his own homeland; he lost his wife; he lost his son. He was buoyed up by no personal hopes, he was drawn on by no personal ambitions. But he kept his courage and he continued to search. He cut himself loose from the comfortable half-truths in which our minds love to repose. He cut himself loose from those harsher half-truths to which our minds swing in the impatience of mere revolt. For Waismann a half-truth, whether conservative or revolutionary, was a distorting mirror. Vision begins when distortions repel and no longer attract the eye. I quote his own words - 'A philosophy is there to be lived out. What goes into the word dies: what goes into the work lives.' Freidrich Waismann is dead; his work is alive.. }

• Friedrich_Waismann abstract "Friedrich Waismann (21 March 1896 – 4 November 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism. He was of Jewish descent - his father being Russian, his mother German. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and became an assistant to Moritz Schlick, a collaboration that guided the trajectory of Waismenn's subsequent intellectual work and career.Waismann developed the concept of linguistic open texture, which describes the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases.Schlick, professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, was shot on the steps of the university by Johann Nelböck, one of his former students, on 22 June 1936. Schlick was among the first to explore the philosophical implications of Einstein’s theory of relativity, and also had a personal relationship with the scientist, having played with him in a chamber group after meeting him in Germany. The fact that eight of the 14 members of the Wiener Kreis school of philosophy (the group he helped found in 1924) were Jews, along with its general liberal ideology and modern, anti-speculative philosophy, secured its place in the category of the “Jewish”. In addition, his visible support of Jewish doctoral students such as Herbert Feigl, who was not able to gain a position as Privatdozent in Vienna after gaining his doctorate in 1928 due to antisemitism, and Waismann, whose position as librarian was terminated in January 1936 for the same reason, also fostered the belief that Schlick, too, was Jewish. By the time he was appointed Chair of Philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1922, the use of antisemitism as a way to express opposition to the philosophical ideals of those like Schlick was already in vogue. A group of his academic opponents unsuccessfully attempted to block his university appointment. Nelböck was tried and sentenced, but the event became a distorted cause célèbre around which crystallized the growing nationalist and anti-Jewish sentiments in the city. After the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 the assassin was released on license after serving 2 years of a 10 year sentence.When Waismann moved to Oxford, he became a key participant in J.L. Austin's series of “Saturday Morning” discussion sessions, which involved detailed discussions of a number of philosophical topics and works, including Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Frege's Grundlagen, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, and Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures. In the summer of 1930 Wittgenstein and Waismann collaborated on a project based on a principal of the form 'The sense of a proposition is the way it is verified'. A rewritten version of the proposed book appeared as "The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy" in 1965. A.W.B. Simpson, fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford from 1955-1973, wrote: I well recall the day of Waismann's funeral. Hart, who had considerable respect for him, attended, and arrived late at the Hart group, wrapped in his gown, which was soaked in heavy rain. Waismann was a Jew...and the philosophers, after silently consigning Waismann to his grave, were about to leave when Ryle lept onto a nearby tabular gravestone and delivered an extempore Periclean oration. The proceedings, attended only by philosphers, all in soggy flapping academic dress, resembled a gathering of immense crows clustered around a carrion, and excited the bewildered attention of some passing locals. But this was Oxford, and the burial took place close to the site of Osney Abbey, near the railway station, where the trains in those days always paused as a token of respect as they entered the city of dreaming spires. So was buried the Oxford philosopher who had enjoyed or perhaps suffered the longest connection with Wittgenstein.GIlbert Ryle was one of Waismann's chief supporters at Oxford, and in his Grabrede, later printed, spoke of Waismann's love of truth: We are here to say "goodbye" to Friedrich Waismann. He was our colleague and friend. But above all we learned from him. We think through him and he thinks through us. He was exiled from his own homeland; he lost his wife; he lost his son. He was buoyed up by no personal hopes, he was drawn on by no personal ambitions. But he kept his courage and he continued to search. He cut himself loose from the comfortable half-truths in which our minds love to repose. He cut himself loose from those harsher half-truths to which our minds swing in the impatience of mere revolt. For Waismann a half-truth, whether conservative or revolutionary, was a distorting mirror. Vision begins when distortions repel and no longer attract the eye. I quote his own words - 'A philosophy is there to be lived out. What goes into the word dies: what goes into the work lives.' Freidrich Waismann is dead; his work is alive.".