George Boole Quotes on Politics
George Boole was an English mathematician, logician, and philosopher and one of the founders of mathematical logic. This page collects quotes attributed to George Boole on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“To deduce the laws of the symbols of Logic from a consideration of those operations of the mind which are implied in the strict use of language as an instrument of reasoning.”
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought(1854) | p. 42 -
“A successful attempt to express logical propositions by symbols, the laws of whose combinations should be founded upon the laws of the mental processes which they represent, would, so far, be a step towards a philosophical language.”
The Mathematical Analysis of Logic,1847 | p. 5 -
“That axiom of Metaphysicians which is termed the principle of contradiction and which affirms that it is impossible for anything to possess a quality, and in the same time not to possess it, is a consequence of the fundamental law of thought, whose expression is x²=x.”
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought(1854) | p. 49: as cited in: " Professor Boole's Mathematical theory " in: Henry Longueville Manse, Philosophical pamphlets, (1853), p. 6 -
“There is not only a close analogy between the operations of the mind in general reasoning and its operations in the particular science of Algebra, but there is to a considerable extent an exact agreement in the laws by which the two classes of operations are conducted.”
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought(1854) | p. 6; As cited in: Leandro N. De Castro, Fernando J. Von Zuben, Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing, Idea Group Inc (IGI), 2005 p. 236