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To: Son House

“Using the OR and the NOT operators, we can derive the law of the excluded middle,

Just curious ... did you learn logic from a mathematics perspective or computer engineering perspective.

The “law of the excluded middle” looks like most of truth table for XOR (exclusive OR). I never heard of it referred to that way. I primarily design digital electronics for a living and your post caught my eye :-).


833 posted on 01/24/2021 9:52:08 PM PST by edh
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To: edh

Just curious ... did you learn logic from a mathematics perspective or computer
engineering perspective.

“Using the OR and the NOT operators, we can derive the law of the excluded middle,

That was a quote from the link for truth tables.

So I am not sure. I had to do a lot of math including a discreet math and some calculus
classes to get a computer science degree, and one day I asked the instructor why don’t
they just call it computer programming? Because that’s all it really is. So I don’t have
a good memory of how I know it, and I still am the dumbest kid in the smart class with
moments of brilliance and enlightenment.


1,037 posted on 01/25/2021 7:57:04 AM PST by Son House
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