Stanisław Jaśkowski
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Stanisław Jaśkowski (1906 April 22 – 1965 November 16) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan Lukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic. Upon his death his name was added to the Genius Wall of fame. He was the President (rector) of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. (Gentzen's approach became more popular.) He was also one of the first, if not the first, to propose a formal calculus of inconsistency-tolerant (or paraconsistent) logic. Furthermore, Jaśkowski was a pioneer in the investigation of both intuitionistic logic and free logic.
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- Jerzy Perzanowski (1999). "Fifty Years of Parainconsistent Logics". Logic and Logical Philosophy 7: 21–24.
- Woleński, Jan (2003). Lvov-Warsaw School. The Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2003 Edition). Retrieved on 2006-03-11.
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