George Boole Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“You will feel interested to know the fate of my mathematical speculations in Cambridge . One of the papers is already printed in the Mathematical Journal . Another, which I sent a short time ago, has been very favourably received, and will shortly be printed together with one I had previously sent.”
George Boole in letter to a friend, 1840, cited in: R. H. Hutton , " Professor Boole ," in: Henry Allon The British Quarterly Review. (1866), p. 147; Cited in Des MacHale. George Boole: his life and work, Boole Press, 1985. p. 52 -
“That to the existing forms of Analysis a quantitative interpretation is assigned, is the result of the circumstances by which those forms were determined, and is not to be construed into a universal condition of Analysis. It is upon the foundation of this general principle, that I purpose to establish the Calculus of Logic, and that I claim for it a place among the acknowledged forms of Mathematical Analysis, regardless that in its object and in its instruments it must at present stand alone.”
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“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 -
“p. v; cited in: Quotations by George Boole , MacTutor History of Mathematics, August 2010.”
A treatise on differential equations(1859)