Mathematician:Diodorus Cronus

Mathematician

Greek philosopher who propagated the interpretation of the conditional statement as a formal implication, as opposed to the more inclusive Rule of Material Implication.

Nationality

Greek

History

• Born: sometime c. 350 BCE (unknown)
• Died: c. 284 BCE

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)