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The above interpretation has been introduced, not on account of its…

Quote byGeorge Boole · 1815–1864

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), p. 50.

English (original)

The above interpretation has been introduced, not on account of its immediate value in the present system, but as an illustration of a significant fact in the philosophy of the intellectual powers, viz., that what has commonly been regarded as the fundamental axiom of metaphysics is but the consequence of a law of thought, mathematical in its form.

— George Boole

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