...may be understood, and the treatment of its subject facilitated. It is designed, in the first place, to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed. It is unnecessary to enter here into any argument to prove that the operations of the mind arc in a...

...may be understood, and the treatment of its subject facilitated. It is designed, in the first place, to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed. It is unnecessary to enter here into any argument to prove that the operations of the mind are in a...

...plane. The calculus of logic, upon the invention of which Boole's fame as a philosophical mathematician may be permitted to rest, is most fully developed...reasoning is performed ; to give expression to them in the symbolical language of a Calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of logic,...

...Professor of Mathematics in Queen's College, Cork. 8vo. 14s. cloth. THE design of this treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations...reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolical language of a Calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of logic and...

...together to give a concise epitome of the author's main logical ideas. The design of this treatise " is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations...reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolic language of a calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of logic, and...

...author's main logical ideas. The design of this treatise " is to investigate the fundamental law« of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolic language of a calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of logic, and...

.... The calculus of logie, upon the invention of which Boole's fame as a philosophical mathematician may be permitted to rest, is most fully developed...words — " to investigate the fundamental laws of thnse operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed ; to give expression to them in the symbolical...

...of mathematics to logic and the laws of thinking. The object of the work, as stated by himself, is "to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations...reasoning is performed ; to give expression to them in the symbolical language of a calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of logic and...

...and Probabilities, was a development of the principle laid down in the Calculus, its design being ' to investigate, the fundamental laws of those operations...reasoning is performed ; to give expression to them in the symbolical language of a calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the Science of Logic and...

...Mathematics as a branch of Logic."* VI. The design of the Laws of Thought was stated by Boolef to be: " to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed ;J to give expression to them ¡11 the symbolical language of a Calculus, § and upon this foundation...