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A Port City as the Cradle of Formal Logic
Published November 30, 2018 by gb994

A Port City as the Cradle of Formal Logic

Author: Heidi White   Logic seems like a bookish discipline, but its discovery was actually a response to urban political crisis in the fourth century B.C. More generally, a number…

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