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March 15, 2023

Lewis Carroll’s Anti-Semitic Logic

Did the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland really believe that “No Jews are honest”?

Remembered today as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Jabberwocky, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a/k/a Lewis Carroll) also produced important books and essays on mathematics and formal logic. Adam Roberts, as an admirer of the former works, decided to read the 1897 Symbolic Logic, Part I—and came across the following example of deduction:

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