Epistemologist

🇦🇹Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1845–1925

"What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts."

🇫🇷Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy

Existentialism

1905–1980

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

🇬🇧Richard Dawkins

Science

atheism

b. 1941

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

🇫🇷Jean-François Lyotard

Philosophy

Continental philosophy

1924–1998

"I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives."

🇩🇪George Berkeley

Philosophy

Empiricism

1685–1753

"Abstract terms should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves."

🇦🇷Mario Bunge

Philosophy

Materialism

1919–2020

"At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments."