Louis Couturat was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher and linguist, born in Paris in 1868. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1887, lectured on philosophy at Toulouse and on the philosophy of mathematics at Caen, and in 1905 became an assistant to Henri Bergson at the Collège de France. He was the leading French advocate of the symbolic logic that grew out of the work of Peirce, Peano and Bertrand Russell, and wrote a detailed study of the logic of Leibniz in 1901. Henri Poincaré opposed his efforts to interest the French in symbolic logic. Couturat was also a pioneer of the constructed language Ido.
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He argued that philosophy must remain true to itself, and affirm its freedom from other disciplines.
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He was the French advocate of the symbolic logic that emerged in the years before World War I
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