Richard Avenarius
German philosopher
- Lived
- 1843–1896
- Country
- Germany
Updated September 2026
About Richard Avenarius
Richard Heinrich Ludwig Avenarius was a German-Swiss philosopher. He formulated the radical positivist doctrine of "empirical criticism" or empirio-criticism.
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