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The Idea that modern formal systems are a European Invention is a common misconception, but nevertheless wrong. Depending on your definition of "modern formal s
by bijant 6y ago
The Idea that modern formal systems are a European Invention is a common misconception, but nevertheless wrong. Depending on your definition of "modern formal systems" they were either first invented by the Babylonians, in India or in China but most certainly not in Europe, which at the time was at a much earlier state of development.
- hintymad 6y agoI meant the systematic thinking of axioms, theorems, and logical systems like syllogism. I don’t know about other countries, but I’m pretty sure India or China didn’t develop rigorous systems line Greeks and Arabics. They developed a lot of techniques, for sure, like how to solve equation systems, but certainly not generalizations like axioms-theorems-proofs