ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURE OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN OMENS

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作者：
Schumann, Andrew [1 ]
Sazonov, Vladimir [2 ]
Toyraanvuori, Joanna [3 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Informat Technol & Management, Rzeszow, Poland
[2] Univ Tartu, Estonian Mil Acad, Tartu, Estonia
[3] Univ Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
来源：
FOLKLORE-ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE | 2024年 / 93期
关键词：
omen; divination; Boolean algebra; Mesopotamia; logic;
D O I：
10.7592/FEJF2024.93.omen
中图分类号：
I27 [民间文学];
学科分类号：
030304 ;
摘要：
In this paper,(1) it is shown that we can reconstruct an intuition of Boolean algebra in Mesopotamian divination with different omen series organized as catalogues. Each separate omen was formulated as a conditional statement "if a sign p, then an event q" so that it has only the positive truth value in the Boolean algebra. This means that omen catalogues can be considered as a dataset containing some logical axioms (only true propositions). It is the earliest form of binary thinking which was logically correct.
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