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Schelling

American  
[shel-ing] / ˈʃɛl ɪŋ /

noun

  1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775–1854, German philosopher.


Schelling British  
/ ʃɛˈlɪŋɪən, ˈʃɛlɪŋ /

noun

  1. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf fɔn). 1775–1854, German philosopher. He expanded Fichte's idea that there is one reality, the infinite and absolute Ego, by regarding nature as an absolute being working towards self-consciousness. His works include Ideas towards a Philosophy of Nature (1797) and System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)

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In a biographical statement accompanying the prize, Schelling wrote of the checkerboard model, “Without knowing it I was pioneering a field of study that later became known as ‘agent-based computational modeling.’”

From New York Times May 8, 2023

But this week, he expanded what the strategist Schelling called “implicit bargaining” with Russia by marking the contours of the war.

From Washington Post Jun. 2, 2022

National security scholars such as Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin developed the concept of arms control in the late 1950s and early 1960s amid an accelerating U.S.-Soviet arms race.

From Salon Mar. 12, 2022

Schelling wrote eloquently—at times, all too casually—about sending messages with force.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2021

Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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