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Black, Max
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1909–88, American analytical philosopher, b. Baku, Russia (now Baky, Azerbaijan), grad. Cambridge Univ., Ph.D. Univ. of London, 1939. He taught at the Univ. of Ill. (1940–46) before going to Cornell Univ. (1946). Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, he wrote A Companion to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (1964). His concern with clear language was expressed in Language and Philosophy (1949), Models and Metaphors (1962), The Labyrinth of Language (1968), and Margins of Precision: Essays in Logic and Language (1970).
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