Definition of Cassirer

1. Noun. German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945).

Exact synonyms: Ernst Cassirer
Generic synonyms: Philosopher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassirer

Casta
Castalian
Castanea chrysophylla
Castanea crenata
Castanea dentata
Castanea mollissima
Castanea ozarkensis

Literary usage of Cassirer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1911)
"Von Ernst cassirer. Berlin: Bruno cassirer, 1911. Pp.601. The first volume of this scholarly work of Dr. Ernst cassirer, of the University of Berlin, ..."

2. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"... E. cassirer, and others — the members of which differ from Liebmann perhaps most conspicuously in contending that, when Kant's own doctrine is correctly ..."

3. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"NEURITIS AND POLYNEURITIS BY R. cassirer, BERLIN NEURITIS CASE 1.—The patient under consideration, a laborer aged 30, states that two weeks ago he had an ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"cassirer describes some cases resembling those to which attention has been ... cassirer discusses spinal ataxia, particularly the form affecting a single ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"cassirer describes some cases resembling those to which attention has been ... cassirer discusses spinal ataxia, particularly the form affecting a single ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"According to cassirer and Schiff, the degeneration of this root was first ... cassirer and Schiff found the spinal root of the trigeminus degenerated in ..."

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