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This chapter presents an introduction to logic for computing and includes a short history of logic and an introduction to propositional and predicate logic. Propositional logic is the study of propositions, where a proposition is a statement that is either true or false. It may be used to encode simple arguments that are expressed in natural language, and to determine their validity. Predicate logic allows complex facts about the world to be represented, and new facts may be determined via deductive reasoning.
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The origin of the word Stoic is from the Stoa Poikile (Στοα Ποικιλη), which was a covered walkway in the Agora of Athens. Zeno taught his philosophy in a public space at this location, and his followers became known as Stoics.
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Basic truth tables were first used by Frege and developed further by Post and Wittgenstein.
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This institution is now known as University College Cork.
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O’Regan, G. (2018). A Concise Introduction to Logic. In: World of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75844-2_6
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