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Which later logicians adopted notation developed by Charles Sanders Peirce?
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce, c. 1870.
The logicians who adopted notation developed by Charles Sanders Peirce include:
- Ernst Schröder: He read Peirce’s work carefully and incorporated much of his notation and his doctrine regarding the importance of relations into his own influential treatise on the algebra of logic. Schröder also borrowed Peirce's quantifiers, which were introduced in the 1880s.
- Giuseppe Peano: He adopted the notation for quantifiers from Schröder, which in turn originated from Peirce. Peano also utilized much of Peirce’s broader logical notation, which subsequently exerted significant influence into the 20th century.
While Peirce developed an extensive system of logical representation, including his "existential graphs," this later work remained largely unpublished during his lifetime and did not receive widespread recognition until the 1960s.12