- Jens Kraft
Jens Kraft (1720 – 1756) was a Danish mathematician and
philosopher . he introduced the study ofontology toScandinavia n academic circles.He was influenced by Christian Wolff whilst still a student at
Copenhagen , attending a lecture by Wolff while visiting Halle. He was appointed professor of philosophy at theSorø Academy , where he responded to Baumgarten's "Metaphsica" with his own text "metaphysik". Both divided their work into "cosmologie", "ontologie", "psykologie" and "naturlig theologie".Kraft made a distinction between
time andeternity writing that "the finite can never obtain eternity, but it can obtain an infinite time, (Aevum) or a time with beginning but without end." The infinite by contrast has permanence ("sempiternité")".References
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IiFaPhDSEJkC&pg=PA432&lpg=PA432&dq=%22jens+kraft%22&source=web&ots=npf5mBqwuy&sig=AUVXxip919iZQQcrWwG8Oylrznc&hl=en#PPA433,M1 'What has happened to Ontology'] by Peter Ørstrøm, Jan Anderson and Henrik Shärfe in "Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge: 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures", ICCS 2005, Kassel, Germany, by Frithjof Dau (Editor), Marie-Laurie Mugnier (Editor), Gerd Stumme (Editor).
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