Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#Time

That axiom of Metaphysicians which is termed the principle of…

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. 49: as cited in: "Professor Boole's Mathematical theory" in: Henry Longueville Manse, Philosophical pamphlets, (1853), p. 6.

English (original)

That axiom of Metaphysicians which is termed the principle of contradiction and which affirms that it is impossible for anything to possess a quality, and in the same time not to possess it, is a consequence of the fundamental law of thought, whose expression is x²=x.

— George Boole

More from George Boole