Dutch linguist and philosopher, student of Rickert and Husserl. He was a prominent intellectual personality in the Netherlands, a significant actor of interwar debates on language (participating for example in the Davos disputes) and had an impact on the likes of Hjelmslev, Jakobson, Trubeckoj and Merleau-Ponty.
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