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Lewis Carroll's Logic

2008; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1874-5857(08)80013-1

2452-0810

Amirouche Moktefi,

Philosophy and History of Science

This chapter discusses the concept of Lewis Carroll's logic. Lewis Carroll is one of those writers on logic obscured by contradictory influences, balanced between the old logic and the new trends. He is a mathematical teacher, the author of children's tales, and photographer. He is also a very prolific letter-writer and puzzle-maker, and regularly wrote pamphlets and letters to periodicals on matters as various as vaccination, teaching sciences at the university, child actors, and vivisection. Like the majority of his contemporary British colleagues, Carroll's work quickly became out-dated. His only logical contributions, which one still meet(s) with in modern textbooks, are his logic diagrams and Mind problems. Carroll's logical work shows also that he is acquainted with the logical players of his time. Reading Lewis Carroll reveals conflicting influences from both traditional and modern logicians. It also shows some interesting inventions, which deserve more attention from logicians and historians of logic.