Ramble, Part 56: If...
Aug. 23rd, 2008 02:42 pm(Has it really been a month and a half? Sorry, sorry....)
The symbolic logic devised by Boole and his immediate successors treated the AND, OR, and NOT operators algebraically. It took something like half a century before Charles Sanders Pierce and Gottlob Frege, working independently, added the fourth major operator, IF...THEN..., to the inventory.
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The symbolic logic devised by Boole and his immediate successors treated the AND, OR, and NOT operators algebraically. It took something like half a century before Charles Sanders Pierce and Gottlob Frege, working independently, added the fourth major operator, IF...THEN..., to the inventory.
( Material Implication )
Ramble Contents