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Article #348Re: Are all crows black? => Logic as an essential subject?
From: John C. Baez
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:59
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:59
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In article <BxGFw2.AJv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will Overington) writes: >Can I ask please, is syllogisms and the like what sci.logic is about, >or am I missing something fundamental. Syllogisms are what logicians were up to in the Middle Ages, and there's a lot of interesting stuff that has happened since. (Actually logicians were already doing lots of other stuff in the Middle Ages.) In the late 1800's a study of the "foundations of mathematics" and logic began which led to a lot of spectacular results in this century, such as Goedel's theorems. For a tour of logic you could do worse than to take a peek at the entries about logic in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. And you can read sci.logic to see what sorts of things people argue about.
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Newsgroups: sci.logic,alt.uu.future Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Are all crows black? => Logic as an essential subject? Message-ID: <1992Nov11.225953.231@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <1992Nov8.072149.18855@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov8.193612.16707@lclark.edu> <BxGFw2.AJv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 22:59:53 GMT Lines: 13