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Nationality groups philosophers by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Immanuel Kant as "a German philosopher," a nationality that placed him within the German university system of his day. This dimension shows which countries produced the philosophers behind a given tradition.

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Era of Emergence
18 1
Cultural Origin Tradition
German 1
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1. Wikipedia: Aesthetics
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  • Aesthetics, lead section, emergence sentence
    Aesthetic thought has its roots in antiquity but only emerged as a distinct field of inquiry in the 18th century when philosophers systematically engaged with the subject.
  • Aesthetics, lead section, Baumgarten term-coining sentence
    The Latin term aesthetica was coined by the philosopher Alexander Baumgarten in 1735
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