Boole's annotations on 'the mathematical analysis of logic'

History and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2):27-39 (1983)
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George Boole collected ideas for the improvement of his Mathematical analysis of logic(1847) on interleaved copies of that work. Some of the notes on the interleaves are merely minor changes in explanation. Others amount to considerable extension of method in his mathematical approach to logic. In particular, he developed his technique in solving simultaneous elective equations and handling hypotheticals and elective functions. These notes and extensions provided a source for his later book Laws of thought(1854)

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An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.George Boole - 1854 - [New York]: Dover Publications.
The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.George Boole - 1950 - Philosophy 25 (95):350-353.
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Boole's criteria for validity and invalidity.John Corcoran & Susan Wood - 1980 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 21 (4):609-638.

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