https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/aristotle-computer/518697/
created by drinka40tonight on 21/03/2017 at 10:06 UTC
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Comment by id-entity at 21/03/2017 at 20:32 UTC
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Nice article. What I wonder, how does Aristotelian logic relate to the discussion of Great Kinds in Plato's Sophist?
Comment by [deleted] at 21/03/2017 at 20:33 UTC
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The title is of course misleading. Aristotle is a major figure in logic. Boole created Boolean logic with inspiration from Aristotle. Shannon showed that Boolean logic is isomorphic to circuits.
The article itself is fine, with a slightly biased understanding of history, over emphasizing Turing by my estimation, and not giving enough credit to De Morgan, Pierce, and Sheffer. It also repeats the usual lies about neural networks, but I forgive this, as it seems to be the modern orthodoxy in Silicon Valley.