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Boole did not fundamentally change the lines of his research after publishing The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (Boole 1847; hereafter ‘MAL’). His logic was still mathematics applied to logic; consequences were to be drawn from premises rendered in algebraic form by means of expansion theorems which in effect solved class equations; logical expressions might (not) be interpretable; the role of signs remained prominent; language was still focused upon nouns and adjectives, although its role in general was still emphasised; classes were analysed in terms of part and whole; disjunction was defined only for disjoint classes; and so on.
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Grattan-Guinness, I. (2000). On Boole’s Algebraic Logic after The Mathematical Analysis of Logic . In: Gasser, J. (eds) A Boole Anthology. Synthese Library, vol 291. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9385-4_11
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