Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (; in

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– 10 September 1985 in

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) was a

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researcher,

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logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

ian,

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and

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who was a specialist in the philosophy of

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and the

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. Son of the

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leader Mikhail Kedrov, he himself joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. Kedrov had a

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of Philosophy degree and specialized in philosophical questions of the natural sciences. He was a member of the

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since 1966, author of over one thousand publications. Since 1963, Kedrov was a member of the

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and a number of other institutions. Kedrov was one of the initiators and the first editor-in-chief of '' Problems of Philosophy'' (Voprosy Filosofii), a leading Soviet journal of philosophy, from 1947 to 1949.

Publications

* ''The Science'' (1968) in association with Alexander Spirkin

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kedrov, Bonifaty 1903 births 1985 deaths People from Yaroslavl Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences Foreign members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Moscow State University alumni Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Bolsheviks Historians of science Philosophers of science Soviet chemists Soviet logicians Soviet philosophers Soviet psychologists Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts