Re: [HM] Truth tables

Subject: Re: [HM] Truth tables
From: Martin Davis (martin@eipye.com)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 22:22:48 EDT

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At 08:09 AM 4/20/00 +0800, Phill Schultz wrote:
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> Was Wittgenstein really the first to define and use truth tables?

They certainly occur in Emil Post's dissertation of 1921.

Martin Davis

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