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The ideas preceding truth tables have been found in both Frege and Bertrand Russell whereas the actual ' tabular structure ' ( i. e. being formed as a table ) is generally credited to either Ludwig Wittgenstein, Emil Post or both ( independently of one another ).

Besides Frege and Russell, others credited for having preceding ideas of truth-tables include Philo, Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ernst Schröder.

And besides Post and Wittgenstein, others credited with the tabular structure include Łukasiewicz, Schröder, Alfred North Whitehead, William Stanley Jevons, John Venn, and Clarence Irving Lewis.

Ultimately, some, like John Shosky, have concluded " It is far from clear that any one person should be given the title of ' inventor ' of truth-tables.

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