John Venn

Thinkers1834 to 1923Logician

Works

  • On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings, Philosophical Magazine, 1880

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Known for

A logician whose 1880 paper introduced the overlapping-circle diagrams now named for him, as a way to represent logical propositions and the relations among classes.

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