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• ... that logician and philosopher '''[[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]]''' was a pioneer of post-Aristotelian logic, and that his innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle helped establish modern logic? | • ... that logician and philosopher '''[[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]]''' was a pioneer of post-Aristotelian logic, and that his innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle helped establish modern logic? | ||
• ... that research into '''[[high-energy literature]]''' uses techniques from high-energy physics to enhance both semantics and syntax in written documents, and that [[Cherenkov radiation (nonfiction)|Cherenkov radiation]] is commonly used to advance the plot in techno-thrillers such as [[The Taking of Pelham 3.1415]]? | |||
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• ... that polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich produced a precursor of atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position, and that Boscovich discovered the absence of atmosphere on the Moon?
• ... that logician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz was a pioneer of post-Aristotelian logic, and that his innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle helped establish modern logic?
• ... that research into high-energy literature uses techniques from high-energy physics to enhance both semantics and syntax in written documents, and that Cherenkov radiation is commonly used to advance the plot in techno-thrillers such as The Taking of Pelham 3.1415?