# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chaim-perelman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:00.842Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/chaim-perelman"
name: "Chaïm Perelman"
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description: "Chaïm Perelman was a Belgian philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin. He was among the most important argumentation theorists of the 20th century. His chief work is the Traité de l'argumentation – la nouvelle rhétorique (1958), with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, translated into English as The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver (1969)."
tagline: "Belgian philosopher of law (1912-1984)"
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birthDate: "1912-05-20"
deathDate: "1984-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump