The Mathematical
Analysis of Logic
By GEORGE BOOLE
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THE MATHEMATICAL
ANALYSIS OF LOGIC
THE MATHEMATICAL
ANALYSIS OF LOGIC
BEING AN ESSAY TOWARDS A
CALCULUS OF DEDUCTIVE
REASONING
By GEORGE BOOLE
PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY
NEW YORK
Published in the United States of America
1948, by the Philosophical Library, Inc.,
East 40th Street, New York, N.Y.
THE MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
OF LOGIC,
BEING AN ESSAY TOWARDS A CALCULUS
OF DEDUCTIVE REASONING.
BY GEORGE BOOLE.
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PREFACE.
IN presenting this Work to public notice, I deem it not irrelevant to observe, that speculations similar to those which it records have, at different periods, occupied my thoughts.
In the spring of the present year my attention was directed to the question then moved between Sir W. Hamilton and
Professor De Morgan; and I was induced by the interest which it inspired, to resume the almost-forgotten thread of former inquiries. It appeared to me that, although Logic might be viewed with reference to the idea of quantity…