Ramon Lull and the infidels.

From: AI Magazine | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Ford, Kenneth M.; Glymour, Clark; Hayes, Patrick J. | Copyright information

Artificial intelligence has roots in the 13th century. The process is computation and requires combining symbols. Ramon Lull, 1232-1316, drew many of his thoughts from an analytic tradition in logic and combinatorics. Logic as a theory of reason appeared in the 4th century BC in Aristotle's Prior Analytics as the theory of syllogism. and combinatorics appear in the writings of Porphyry in the 3rd century BC.

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