Bernard Bolzano#Bernard
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#Bernard
Bernard Bolzano · 1781–1848
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Who this is
“While all of Germany decided that reality was made of mind, a silenced priest in a Bohemian farmhouse quietly built the mind-independent logic that the modern world — from set theory to computer science — actually runs on.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Truths exist in themselves. A proposition is true or false whether or not any mind ever thinks it — and logic is the science of these mind-independent truths, not of how humans happen to reason.”
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