 Among those women impacted by Thomasius’ logic is Dorothea Christiane Erxleben (née Leporin, 1715–62), who would later receive the first doctorate in medicine in Germany from the university in Halle in 1753. In 1742 she published a treatise entitled Gründliche Untersuchung der Ursachen, die das weibliche Geschlecht vom Studiren abhalten (Rigorous Investigation of the Causes that Obstruct the Female Sex from Study). While Erxleben there draws on a variety of sources, including Wolffian thought (cf. Stiening 2020), she makes good use of two aspects of Thomasius’ logic, namely, his practically-oriented account of learnedness, and the doctrine of prejudice presented in the concluding chapter (cf. Dyck 2021c). So, in the Rigorous Investigation, Erxleben defines learnedness (“Gelehrsamkeit”) as