{"type":"/type/text","value":"Ernest Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism".\r\n\r\nHis first book, Words and Things (1959), prompted a leader in The Times ...

{"type":"/type/text","value":"Ernest Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism".\r\n\r\nHis first book, Words and Things (1959), prompted a leader in The Times ...