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George Boole

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The power of conceiving any collection of things possessing some common attribute as constituting a class being pre-supposed there are two distinct ways in which simple conceptions thus furnished may by the mind’s own activity be made complex. 1st. By aggregating the members. 2ndly. By combining the qualities of different classes

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  1. Middlesex University, Queensway Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 4SF, Great Britain

    Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic)

  2. Philosophisches Seminar, Université Miséricorde, Fribourg, 1700, Switzerland

    Dr. phil.-hist. Gérard Bornet

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  1. Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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  1. Middlesex University, Queensway Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 4SF, Great Britain

    Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic) (Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic)

  2. Philosophisches Seminar, Université Miséricorde, Fribourg, 1700, Switzerland

    Gérard Bornet

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Grattan-Guinness, I., Bornet, G. (1997). General Summary. In: Grattan-Guinness, I., Bornet, G. (eds) George Boole. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 20. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8859-2_7

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