In the 4th century BCE, Aristotle formulated the system of formal logic known as the syllogism (e.g., If A=B and B=C, then A=C). By proving that human reasoning could be structured into rigid, mathematical rules, he laid the absolute theoretical foundation for modern programming and knowledge engineering.
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