Frederic Brenton Fitch

Frederic Brenton Fitch (born September 9, 1908 in Greenwich , Connecticut , † September 18, 1987 ) was an American logician and the developer of the Fitch calculus . In his essay "A Logical Analysis of Some Value Concepts" published in 1963 he proves "Theorem 5" (originally by Alonzo Church ), which later became famous in the context of the paradox of possible knowledge . Fitch was a professor at Yale University . In 1979 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

bibliography

• Symbolic Logic, An Introduction. Frederic Fitch, The Ronald Press Company, 1952
• A Logical Analysis of Some Value Concepts, Frederic Fitch, 1963
• "The Perfection of Perfection," Process and Divinity, William L. Reese and Eugene Freeman , eds. LaSalle, Ill .: Open Court, 1964

Publications

• "Symbolic Logic, An Introduction," The Ronald Press Company, 1952
• "A Logical Analysis of Some Value Concepts", The Journal of Symbolic Logic , 28, 1963
• "A Revision of Hohfeld's Theory of Legal Concepts", Logique et Analyze , 10, 1967

literature

• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 652.

Web links

• Frederic Fitch in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• http://www.cc.utah.edu/~nahaj/logic/structures/systems/fitch.html
• Berit Brogaard, Joe Salerno:  Fitch's Paradox of Knowability. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .