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George Boole (1815–1864) is widely regarded as the founder of mathematical logic. Many influential logicians at the beginning of the twentieth century, a time of rapid growth in logic, credited him with originating the tradition in which they worked. Many influential historians of logic credit him with playing a pivotal role in transforming logic from the mold in which it was set from ancient times to the dramatically growing mathematical form it has assumed in more recent times.
I am then compelled to assert, that, according to this view of the nature of Philosophy,Logic forms no part of it. On the principle of a true classification, we ought no longer to associate Logic and Metaphysics, but Logic and Mathematics (Boole 1847, 13).
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Nambiar, S. (2000). The Influence of Aristotelian Logic on Boole’s Philosophy of Logic: The Reduction of Hypotheticals to Categoricals. In: Gasser, J. (eds) A Boole Anthology. Synthese Library, vol 291. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9385-4_12
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