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Written by Leon P Smith on 2024-12-20 at 14:17

@mattmcirvin @llewelly @VinceVatter

Venn Diagrams are also one of the long-lasting contributions of New Math, which is an echo of set theory that's pretty much unavoidable in modern culture.

Julie Moronuki mentions that in her presentation on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Metaphor:

(Another fun fact: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus may have introduced and at least popularlized truth tables. But I more typically appreciate the later Wittgenstein who was highly critical of the Tractatus.)

https://argumatronic.com/posts/2018-09-02-effective-metaphor.html

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