On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference The Logical Piano

by William Stanley Jevons

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To the reader of the preceding paper it will be evident that mechanism is capable of replacing for the most part the action of thought required in the performance of logical deduction. Mental agency is required only in interpreting correctly the grammatical structure of the premises, and in gathering the purport of the reply... The machine is thus the embodiment of a true symbolic method or Calculus... A LANDMARK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: FIRST EDITION OF JEVONS’S

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