In an IHT op-ed on puns, Joseph Tartakovsky mentions Richard Whately (1787-1863), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and former Oxford Professor of Political Economy, as being renowned for his puns. Whately was possibly the first person to represent an argument using a diagram, in his 1826 text book on logic, Elements of Logic. Philosopher Tim van Gelder has a reproduction of Whately’s diagram here.
References:
Chris Reed, Douglas Walton and Fabrizio Macagno [2007]: Argument diagramming in logic, law and artificial intelligence. Knowledge Engineering Review, 22 (1): 87-109.
Joseph Tartovsky [2009]: Pun for the ages. International Herald Tribune. 28 March 2009.
Richard Whately [1826]: Elements of Logic. London, UK: Longmans, Green and Company, 1913. First published 1826.
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