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Ernst Cassirer, an Uncommon card
Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 45,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Ernst Cassirer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ernst Cassirer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of ______ idealism.
Answer
philosophical. Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. From the Ernst Cassirer article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
After Cohen's death in ____, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand the "logic and psychology of thought" into a more general "logic of the cultural sciences".
Answer
1910s. After Cohen's death in 1918, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand the "logic and psychology of thought" into a more general "logic of the cultural sciences". From the Ernst Cassirer article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.
- After Cohen's death in 1918, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand the "logic and psychology of thought" into a more general "logic of the cultural sciences".
- Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ernst Cassirer article was read about 45,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Ernst Cassirer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology - CARP http://www.phenomenologycenter.org, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
