Gottfried Ploucquet
Gottfried Ploucquet | |
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| Born | 1716 |
| Died | 1790 (aged 73–74) |
Gottfried Ploucquet (1716–1790) was a German philosopher and logician.[1][2] Ploucquet taught at the University of Tübingen. A student of Christian Wolff, Ploucquet was influenced by Leibniz's ideas of a universal language (characterista universalis) and a logical calculus (calculus ratiocenator).[3] August Friedrich Bök was a student of Ploucquet. His logic influenced Johann Heinrich Lambert.
Biography
Ploucquet was born in Stuttgart, the son of Gottfried Ploucquet, a Huguenot refugee who fled after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685).[4]
References
- ↑ Hawley, T. D. R. (1896). Infallible Logic: A Visible and Automatic System of Reasoning. United States: R. Smith printing Company. p. 614
- ↑ Dumitriu, A. (1977). History of Logic. Romania: Abacus Press. p. 154
- ↑ Murawski, R. (1995). Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective. Netherlands: Rodopi. p. 117
- ↑ Henkel, C. (2024). Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.