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American philosopher
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Male
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24 June 1921
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14 June 2017
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Biography
Introduction
Raziel Abelson (born June 24, 1921) is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at New York University and a proponent of the Ordinary Language School of Philosophy.
Biography
He was born in Brooklyn,New York, the son of Rabbi Alter Abelson and Anna Goldina Schwartz.
He received a M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1950 with the thesis "Bertrand Russell's theory of truth", and a Ph.D. in 1960 from New York University with a thesis "An analysis of the concept of definition, and critique of three traditional philosophical views concerning its role in knowledge"