Gottfried Ploucquet (1716–1790) was a German philosopher and logician.Hawley, T. D. R. (1896). Infallible Logic: A Visible and Automatic System of Reasoning. United States: R. Smith printing Company. p. 614Dumitriu, A. (1977). History of Logic. Romania: Abacus Press. p. 154 Ploucquet taught at the University of Tübingen. A student of Christian Wolff, Ploucquet was influenced by Leibniz's ideas of a universal language (characterista universalis) and a logical calculus (calculus ratiocenator).Murawski, R. (1995). Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective. Netherlands: Rodopi. p. 117 August Friedrich Bök was a student of Ploucquet. His logic influenced Johann Heinrich Lambert.
Biography Ploucquet was born in Stuttgart, the son of Gottfried Ploucquet, a Huguenot refugee who fled Lyon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685).Henkel, C. (2024). Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. He became a professor at the University of Tübingen, as would his son, . Other descendants of Ploucquet include , founder of a clothmaking company, and Hermann Ploucquet, a taxidermist.
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