Hans Vaihinger was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob, published in 1911 although its statement of basic principles had been written more than thirty years earlier. Wikipedia
Born: September 25, 1852, Nehren, Germany
Died: December 18, 1933 (age 81 years), Halle (Saale), Germany
Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Albert Lange, and more
Notable ideas: Fictionalism; (philosophy of 'as if')
School: Neo-Kantianism; Fictionalism