Boole’s Symbolized Laws of Thought Facing Empiricism

George Boole (1815–1864) is rightly known as a logician, the author of an algebra logic, even if he did not conceive it quite in same way we know it. The calculus on classes and propositions, that set out to be equivalent, were at core his logic. After more than twenty centuries where logic was associated analysis language, handled for first time with mathematical symbols. However, Boole’s one produced. In this chapter, I would like move apart from classical recurring approach history – often referred Whiggist contextualize work so brighten main trends which guided renewal how deal also mathematician, since Mathematical Analysis Logic (1847), very close symbolical thinking algebra, developed Cambridge by “The Analytics” order found usual algebraic practices. An Investigation Laws Thought (1854) enunciated systematic view project devised whole system, facing what stake theory knowledge strong rise experimental sciences. Clearly, wanted stand empiricism, metaphysics well, maintain absolute meaning formal And will scrutinize philosophical references precise enterprise answered these issues, relating necessary reasoning, probable reasoning well.