Re: Sir Edward Wright is dead
From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 02/14/05
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:00:59 +0000
Mitch Harris wrote:
> Robin Chapman <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Did Ludo contribute anything of value to mathematics?
>
> Supposedly he was the originator of the truth table (in Tractatus
> Logico-Philosophicus). (I believe that Post had published on truth
> functions and truth tables previously but Wittgenstein is more commonly
> mentioned as the originator).
So you are saying that he is often wrongly attributed as orignator
of the truth-table ?
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