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unusual facts about Jean Nicod


Jean Nicod

Jean Nicod's name is also commemorated by the prestigious Jean Nicod Lectures, delivered annually in Paris by a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist, and published as a series by the MIT Press.


Inductivism

Bertrand Russell found Keynes's Treatise on Probability the best examination of induction, and if read with Jean Nicod's Le Probleme logique de l'induction as well as R B Braithwaite's review of that in the October 1925 issue of Mind, to provide "most of what is known about induction", although the "subject is technical and difficult, involving a good deal of mathematics".

Propositional formula

Henry M. Sheffer (1921) and Jean Nicod is sufficient to express all propositional formulas.


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Propositional formula

In the years between the first edition of 1912 and the 2nd edition of 1927, H. M. Sheffer 1921 and M. Jean Nicod, nowadays known as the "stroke" or NAND (NOT-AND, NEITHER ... NOR...).