{"id":487,"date":"2009-04-01T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2009-04-01T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:31:25","slug":"richard-whately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/richard-whately\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Whately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an IHT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/28\/opinion\/28Tartakovsky.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=puns&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed<\/a> on puns, Joseph Tartakovsky mentions Richard Whately (1787-1863), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and former Oxford Professor of Political Economy, as being renowned for his puns.\u00a0\u00a0 Whately was\u00a0possibly the first person to represent an argument using a diagram, in his 1826 text book on logic, <em>Elements of Logic.\u00a0 <\/em>Philosopher Tim van Gelder has a reproduction of Whately&#8217;s diagram <a href=\"http:\/\/timvangelder.com\/2009\/02\/15\/earliest-argument-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nHow nice to be remembered 150 years after one\u2019s death for both one\u2019s wit and one\u2019s visual thinking processes.<br \/>\n<em>References:<\/em><br \/>\nChris Reed,\u00a0 Douglas Walton and Fabrizio Macagno [2007]:\u00a0\u00a0Argument diagramming in\u00a0logic, law and artificial intelligence. <em>Knowledge Engineering Review<\/em>,\u00a022 (1): 87-109.<br \/>\nJoseph Tartakovsky [2009]: Pun for the ages.\u00a0 <em>International Herald Tribune<\/em>.\u00a0 28 March 2009.<br \/>\nRichard Whately [1826]:\u00a0 <em>Elements of Logic<\/em>. London, UK: Longmans, Green and Company, 1913. First published 1826.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an IHT op-ed on puns, Joseph Tartakovsky mentions Richard Whately (1787-1863), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and former Oxford Professor of Political Economy, as being renowned for his puns.\u00a0\u00a0 Whately was\u00a0possibly the first person to represent an argument using a diagram, in his 1826 text book on logic, Elements of Logic.\u00a0 Philosopher Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentation","category-decision-theory","category-humour","p1","y2009","m04","d01","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}