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Paper Logic Machine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Michael Holt*
Affiliation:
27 The Avenue, Kew, Surrey

Extract

Junior School children seem to be able to get the feel of the Klein group by using aptly-prepared paper sheets and wooden blocks. Perhaps, surprisingly, they can also handle such logical implications (when suitably embodied in devices) as:

A→B, ∼B→∼A, B→A, and ∼A→∼B

Here “→” means “implies” and “∼” means “not.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1972

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