Vicente Ferreira da Silva


Vicente Ferreira da Silva was a Brazilian logician, mathematician, and philosopher. He was one of first men in Brazil history to write and have published an academic book in logic.

Biography

First philosopher to study logic in Brazil, Vicente was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine.
In his mature work, he sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work and Schelling's philosophy of mythology.
During his life, Vicente kept in touch and influenced thinkers like João Guimarães Rosa, Agostinho da Silva, Oswald de Andrade, Julian Marias, Miguel Reale, Saint-John Perse and Vilém Flusser.
He died in 1963 in a car accident.

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