Concept
Diode logic
Overview
Diode logic (or diode-resistor logic) constructs AND and OR logic gates with diodes and resistors.
An active device (vacuum tubes with control grids in early electronic computers, then transistors in diode–transistor logic) is additionally required to provide logical inversion (NOT) for functional completeness and amplification for voltage level restoration, which diode logic alone can't provide.
Since voltage levels weaken with each diode logic stage, multiple stages can't easily be cascaded, limiting diode logic's usefulness. However, diode logic has the advantage of utilizing only cheap passive components.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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In the ordinary sense of the term, by thought we generally represent to ourselves something more than simple and unmixed thought; we mean some thought, the material of which is from experience. Whereas in logic a thought is understood to include nothing else but what depends on thinking and what thinking has brought into existence. It is in these circumstances that thoughts are _pure_ thoughts.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Diode logic is.
The chief business of the logician is to classify arguments; for all testing clearly depends on classification. The classes of the logicians are defined by certain typical forms called syllogisms. For example, the syllogism called _Barbara_ is as follows: S is M; M is P: Hence, S is P. Or, to put words for letters— Enoch and Elijah were men; all men die: Hence, Enoch and Elijah must have died.
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
States what Diode logic is.
"As the botanist analyzes the structures of the vegetable organism and finds chemical compounds of which they are built so the ordinary chemist analyzes these compounds into their elements, but does not analyze these. The physical chemist analyzes these elemental atoms, as now appears, into minuter components _which he in turn must leave to the mathematicians and logicians further to analyze_."[29] Again it is worth…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Close in meaning to Diode logic; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Logic gate.