Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Death 4 Philosophical work 5 Selected books 6 See also 7 Notes 8 Further reading 9 External links Early life and education [ edit ] Hintikka was born in Helsingin maalaiskunta (now Vantaa) outside of Helsinki, Finland on 12 January 1929. [ 1 ] In 1953, he received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki for a thesis on predicate logic entitled Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates .