Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
(1832–1898)
English mathematician, logician, and humorous writer, better known as Lewis Carroll. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, Carroll spent his entire career there as a mathematician. He wrote upon the theory of voting and various mathematical and logical issues, as well as filling
Alice in Wonderland (1865),
Alice through the Looking Glass (1871),
and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) with play upon logical, philosophical, and semantic themes. Humpty Dumpty exhibits a form of the
Euthyphro dilemma in his views on his authority over his words; the White Knight delves deep into the problem of names, the White King takes ’nobody’ to be a person; the Snark is a
topic-neutral object of a quest (sometimes identified with the Absolute),
and throughout the humour depends upon pushing logical and philosophical reasoning to absurdity. Carroll's paper ‘What the Tortoise said to Achilles’ (
Mind, 1895) presents the classic statement of the need for
rules of inference as well as
axioms in formal systems.
Philosophy dictionary.
Academic.
2011.
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Dodgson,Charles Lutwidge — Dodg·son (dŏjʹsən), Charles Lutwidge. Pen name Lewis Car·roll (kărʹəl) 1832 1898. British mathematician and writer. His stories about Alice, invented to amuse the young daughter of a friend, appear in the classics Alice s Adventures in Wonderland … Universalium
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge — (1832 1898) Better known as Lewis Carroll. A British mathematician, and member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), as well as an author of children s books, who is probably best known for his Alice s Adventures in Wonderland.As… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE — English writer and man of genius, with the nom de plume of Lewis Carroll; distinguished himself at Oxford in mathematics; author of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, besides other works, mathematical … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge — (1832–1898) Real name of Lewis Carroll … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson — Lewis Carroll, Foto von Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1863 Cover des Originalmanuskripts der Alice aus dem Jahr 1864 Lewis Carroll (* 27. Januar … Deutsch Wikipedia
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson — noun English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children s stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832 1898) • Syn: ↑Carroll, ↑Lewis Carroll, ↑Dodgson, ↑Reverend Dodgson, ↑Charles… … Useful english dictionary
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll) — (1832 1898) Mathematician and writer of books for children, s. of a clergyman at Daresbury, Cheshire, was ed. at Rugby and Oxf. After taking orders he was appointed lecturer on mathematics, on which subject he pub. several valuable treatises.… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson — Lewis Carroll Pour les articles homonymes, voir Carroll. Lewis Carroll (autoportrait) Lewis Carroll (de son vrai nom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) es … Wikipédia en Français
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