Mathematician:Philo of Megara
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Mathematician
Greek philosopher who worked on establishing the Rule of Material Implication, differentiating it from formal implication.
A pupil of Diodorus Cronus, who favoured the interpretation of formal implication.
Nationality
Greek
History
- Flourished: c. 300 BCE
Theorems and Definitions
Sources
- 1946: Alfred Tarski: Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S \text{II}.8$: Implication or Conditional Sentence (footnote)
- 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians