Valentino Annibale Pastore (13 November 1868 - 27 February 1956) was an Italian

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and logician. Pastore was born in

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. He studied literature at the University of Turin under

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. His thesis ''La vita delle forme letterarie'' (The life of literary forms) was published in 1892 in Turin. Pastore then turned to

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, influenced by the works of Pasquale d'Ercole, Friedrich Kiesow, Antonio Garbasso, and Giuseppe Peano, publishing his own thesis ''Sopra le teorie della scienza: logica, matematica, fisica'' (On the theories of science: logic,

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, physics) in 1903. He was professor in Turin from 1913 until 1939, leading a laboratory of "experimental logic". He eventually focused on logical aspects and procedures in science. Pastore died in Turin.

Works

* ', 1903 * ', 1906 * ''Del nuovo spirito della scienza e della filosofia'', 1907 * ''Sillogismo e proporzione'', 1910 * ''Dell'essere e del conoscere'', 1911 * ''Il pensiero puro'', 1913 * ''Il problema della causalitá, con particolare riguardo alla teoria del metodo sperimentale'', 1921 * ''Il solipsismo'', 1923 * ''La logica del potenziamento'', 1936 * ''Logica sperimentale'', 1939 * ''L'acrisia di Kant'', 1940 * ''La filosofia di Lenin'', 1946 * ''La volontá dell'assurdo. Storia e crisi dell'esistenzialismo'', 1948 * ''Logicalia'', 1957 * ''Dioniso'', 1957 * ''Introduzione alla metafisica della poesia'', 1957

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1868 births 1956 deaths 19th-century essayists 19th-century Italian male writers 19th-century Italian philosophers 20th-century essayists 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian philosophers Continental philosophers Italian essayists Italian logicians Italian male non-fiction writers Literary theorists Philosophers of literature Philosophers of logic Philosophers of mathematics Philosophers of science Philosophy academics Philosophy writers University of Turin alumni Academic staff of the University of Turin People from Orbassano {{Logic-stub