An Investigation of the Laws of Thought - Couverture souple

Boole, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0760765847 ISBN 13 : 9780760765845

Editeur : BookAnnex, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Boole George

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

GEORGE BOOLE (1815 - 1864) was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Besides rudimentary lessons from his father, a shoemaker, and a few years at local schools, Boole was largely self-taught. Revealing his aptitude for many subjects at an early age, he began his career already at age 16 as a teacher at a village school. In his leisure time he tackled the daunting works of Newton, Laplace, and Lagrange on physics and mathematics. By the age of twenty-four he was submitting original papers to the Cambridge Mathematical Journal and at age twenty-nine he won a medal from the Royal Society for his contributions to mathematical analysis. He continued to so impress his contemporaries that five years later he was appointed professor of mathematics at Queens College, Cork in Ireland, even though he had no university degree. Boole was awarded the Keith Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1855 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. He received honorary degrees of LL.D. from the University of Dublin and the University of Oxford.

Présentation de l'éditeur

t, that doubt is not to be met by an endeavour to settle the point of dispute \textit{\`{a} priori}, but by directing the attention of the objector to the evidence of actual laws, by referring him to an actual science. And thus the solution of that doubt would belong not to the introduction to this treatise, but to the treatise itself. Let the assumption be granted, that a science of the intellectual powers is possible, and let us for a moment consider how the knowledge of it is to be obtained. 4. Like all other sciences, that of the intellectual operations must primarily rest upon observation,--the subject of such observation being the very operations and processes of which we desire to determine the laws. But while the necessity of a foundation in experience is thus a condition common to all sciences, there are some special differences between the modes in which this principle becomes available for the determination of general truths when the subject of inquiry is the mind, and when the subject is ex

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BookAnnex
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0760765847
• ISBN 13: 9780760765845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 453
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible