Abstrakt
We discuss Lewis Carroll’s invention of the rule of resolution and his prototype of the analytic tableaux method from 1896. A few examples are analyzed and a modest open problem is formulated. We conclude the paper with some metalogical and historical remarks.1Bibliografia
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