The influence of Aristotelian logic on Boole's philosophy of logic

the reduction of hypotheticals to categoricals

Sriram Nambiar

pp. 217-239

in: James Gasser (ed), A Boole anthology, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

George Boole (1815–1864) is widely regarded as the founder of mathematical logic. Many influential logicians at the beginning of the twentieth century, a time of rapid growth in logic, credited him with originating the tradition in which they worked. Many influential historians of logic credit him with playing a pivotal role in transforming logic from the mold in which it was set from ancient times to the dramatically growing mathematical form it has assumed in more recent times.

Cited authors

Aristoteles

Boole George