 | Mark Amadeus Notturno - 1989 - 520 pagina’s
...upon the laws of the mental processes which they represent," 41 and his aim in The Laws of Thought was "to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed...and upon this foundation to establish the science of Logic." 42 By contrast with these... | |
 | Hubert L. Dreyfus - 1992 - 412 pagina’s
...step nearer to reality. Like Hobbes, Boole supposed that reasoning was calculating, and he set out to "investigate the fundamental laws of those operations...reasoning is performed, to give expression to them in the symbolic language of a Calculus. . . ."" Boolean algebra is a binary algebra for representing elementary... | |
 | Leslie G. Valiant - 2000 - 260 pagina’s
...algorithm and computational model, that we mentioned earlier.1 For example, in the last century Boole aimed to "investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed." In other words, he believed that one can make progress by analyzing the functional level in isolation.... | |
 | Keith Devlin - 1996 - 228 pagina’s
...Logic. Chapter 1 of The Laws of Thought begins with these words: 42 REASONING AND COMMUNICATING The design of the following treatise is to investigate...reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolic language of a Calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of Logic and construct... | |
 | John V. Canfield - 1997 - 512 pagina’s
...terms of the algorithms of Boolean algebra. Boole himself believed that his calculus could be used 'to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed' and that he could express those laws in the symbolic language of his calculus (Boole [2.2], chapter... | |
 | Mark Bauerlein - 1997 - 164 pagina’s
...Investigation into the Laws ofThought (New York: Dover, 1854), the author echoes Whately in proposing "to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed" (p. 3). In identifying correct reasoning with logic, in saying that a faulty cognition equals an error... | |
 | Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Gerard Bornet - 1997 - 310 pagina’s
...expression, the method of the following Essay is founded" (pp. 5-6); LT opened with a declaration of intent "to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed"; while in an essay destined for PL "by the term Logic in its primary and most general sense we understand... | |
 | David Johnson, Christina Erneling - 1997 - 412 pagina’s
...The Laws of Thought with the psychologistic claim that the "science of Logic" should be founded on the "fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed." Gregory draws from this the conclusion that "For Boole, appropriate laws of logic are rules by which... | |
 | Keith Devlin - 2000 - 372 pagina’s
...Laws of Thought begins with these words: The design of die following treatise is to investigate die fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by...reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolic language of a Calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of Logic and construct... | |
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The design of the following treatise is 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... 
