Quote#Politics & Power
To investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind…
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. 1; Ch. 1. Nature And Design Of This Work, lead paragraph.
English (original)
to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolical language of a Calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of Logic
— George Boole
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