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cubefoxlast Sunday at 3:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

> The greatest logician since Aristotle

Not to diminish Gödel's work, but the greatest logician since Aristotle was clearly Gottlob Frege, the inventor of modern predicate logic.


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roughlylast Sunday at 6:55 PM

You’re going to need to prove that one

mwkaufmalast Sunday at 9:12 PM

One might gently recommend reading the "Political and social views" section on Frege's wikipedia entry before hitching your hot-take wagon to that particular horse.

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