Although he is commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, William of Ockham also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology.

Although a similar observation was made by Aristotle and was known to Greek and Medieval logicians ( in the 14th century, William of Ockham wrote down the words that would result by reading the laws out ), De Morgan is given credit for stating the laws formally and incorporating them in to the language of logic.

The Summa Logicae is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham.

* William of Ockham: philosopher and theologian who developed Ockham's razor and wrote extensively on metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, theology, logic, and politics

Modal logic as a self-aware subject owes much to the writings of the Scholastics, in particular William of Ockham and John Duns Scotus, who reasoned informally in a modal manner, mainly to analyze statements about essence and accident.

Albert's work in logic also shows strong influence by William of Ockham, whose commentaries on the logica vetus ( on Porphyry, and Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione ) were made the subject of a series of works called Quaestiones by Albert.

William of Ockham helped to fuse Latin, Greek and Islamic writing into a general theory of logic ; " Ockham's Razor " was one of his oft-cited conclusions.

Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

Meanwhile, he wrote entries, ultimately thousands during 1883 – 1909, on philosophy, logic, science, and other subjects for the encyclopedic Century Dictionary.

Although the main focus of his work was on medicine, anatomy, and physiology, Galen also wrote about logic and philosophy.

Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics.

There, he wrote the Summulae Logicales, a reference manual on Aristotelian logic that remained in use in European universities for more than 300 years.

Gerbert wrote a series of works dealing with matters of the quadrivium ( arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music ), which he taught using the basis of the trivium ( grammar, logic, and rhetoric ).

Richard Sakwa wrote that the Russian government is undoubtedly considered legitimate by the great majority of the Russian people and seeks to deliver a set of public goods without appealing to extra-democratic logic to achieve them, but whether the system was becoming an illiberal or delegative democracy was more contentious.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

One of the designers of the B5000, Robert S. Barton, later wrote that he developed RPN independently of Hamblin sometime in 1958 while reading a textbook by Kopi on symbolic logic and before he was aware of Hamblin's work.

Chrysippus wrote much on the subject of logic and created a system of propositional logic.

Curry also wrote and taught mathematical logic more generally ; his teaching in this area culminated in his 1963 Foundations of Mathematical Logic.

He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education.

The essay galvanized Gandhi, who wrote and published a synopsis of Thoreau's argument, calling its ' incisive logic.

He wrote his first completeness theorem in modal logic at the age of 17, and had it published a year later.

For example, his father wrote a textbook on the German language for children aged 9 – 13, entitled Hülfsbuch zum Unterrichte in der deutschen Sprache für Kinder von 9 bis 13 Jahren ( 2nd ed., Wismar, 1850 ; 3rd ed., Wismar and Ludwigslust: Hinstorff, 1862 ), the first section of which dealt with the structure and logic of language.

In San Marco, fra Girolamo taught logic to the novices, wrote instructional manuals on ethics, logic, philosophy and government, composed devotional works and prepared his sermons for local congregations.

Since 1824, Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and has had an influence on important 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, and particularly George Boole, as confirmed by his wife Mary Everest Boole who wrote in an " open letter to Dr Bose " titled " Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century " written in 1901 < ref >

He wrote code to run programmable logic controllers which operated manufacturing equipment on shop floors worldwide for Allen-Bradley's customers.

Posidonius wrote on physics ( including meteorology and physical geography ), astronomy, astrology and divination, seismology, geology and mineralogy, hydrology, botany, ethics, logic, mathematics, history, natural history, anthropology, and tactics.

In striking down these rates as an interference with interstate commerce, Hughes recognized that the logic of his argument would permit federal regulation of any action that affected commerce.

Ontologies can of course be written down in a wide variety of languages and notations ( e. g., logic, LISP, etc.

These " mask programmed " parts have the program laid down in the same way as the logic of the chip, at the same time.

From his teachers, Rashi imbibed the oral traditions pertaining to the Talmud as they had been passed down for centuries, as well as an understanding of the Talmud's unique logic and form of argument.

This was compounded by the extended length of the card logic board ; often there was not enough room in the PC case to angle the card into the slot, requiring it to be pushed with great force straight down into the slot.

Maintaining logic complexity when scaling the design down only means that the power dissipation per area will go up.

In actual hardware, the clock is generated externally ; it can be scaled down internally by user logic or dedicated hardware.

In the Marvel Comics Runaways, Victor Mancha, the technorganic android created by Ultron, is shown as unable to process correctly paradoxes: as such, it's known that a small number of well known paradoxes may force his logic in a permanent loop, shutting his functions down until someone steps in to give Victor the proper solution.

Frege wanted to show that mathematics grows out of logic, but in so doing, he devised techniques that took him far beyond the Aristotelian syllogistic and Stoic propositional logic that had come down to him in the logical tradition. Title page to Begriffsschrift ( 1879 ) In effect, Frege invented axiomatic predicate logic, in large part thanks to his invention of quantified variables, which eventually became ubiquitous in mathematics and logic, and which solved the problem of multiple generality.

His logical works, called the Organon, are the earliest formal study of logic that have come down to modern times.

This system allows very complex logic designs to be broken down and evaluated.

Fault tree analysis ( FTA ) is a top down, deductive failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is analyzed using boolean logic to combine a series of lower-level events.

This principle was known as the " appeal to reason ", with " reason " referring not to rationality but the method and logic used by judges in upholding and striking down laws.

Aspect-oriented programming entails breaking down program logic into distinct parts ( so-called concerns, cohesive areas of functionality ).

This theory – that judges were the natural arbiters of the law – is known as the " appeal to reason ", with " reason " referring not to rationality but the method and logic used by judges in upholding and striking down laws.

:"... Brouwer, in a paper entitled " The untrustworthiness of the principles of logic ", challenged the belief that the rules of the classical logic, which have come down to us essentially from Aristotle ( 384 -- 322 B. C.

They have also been known to sell weapons to both sides in a war, though this may be looked down upon ( even in such cases, the logic is often used that they don't make customers actually use weapons, so they are selling deterrents.