In 2020 the UNESCOtogether with the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), declared January 14 as the world logic day.
The proclamation responds to the will to call the attention of the scientific community and the general public about the intellectual history, the theoretical importance and the practical repercussions of logic.
The date commemorates the death of Kurt Gödel and the birth of Alfred Tarski, two great thinkers of the 20th century.
Austrian mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel He is considered one of the most important logicians of all time. He is known above all for his two incompleteness theorems.
For his part, Alfred Tarskia Polish mathematician and logician, made important contributions to set theory, polyvalent logic, language levels, and metalanguage.
The word ‘logic’ comes from the Latin logical and from the Greek logicalwhich means “relating to reasoning, argument, discussion, or reason”. It is a discipline of philosophy focused on the principles of knowledge and human thought.
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