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The story of deductive logic is well known. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, deductive logic as a subject was represented by a finite and rather short list of well known patterns of valid inference. The paucity of the subject did not discourage scholars, however – there were professorships in Logic, courses in Logic, and volumes – fat, fat volumes – in Logic. Indeed, if anyone wants to see just how much can be made out of how little subject matter, I suggest a glance at any nineteenthcentury text in traditional logic. The revolution in the subject was brought about by the work of the English logician Boole.
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The story of deductive logic is well known. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, deductive logic as a subject was represented by a finite and rather short list of well known patterns of valid inference. The paucity of the subject did not discourage scholars, however – there were professorships in Logic, courses in Logic, and volumes – fat, fat volumes – in Logic. Indeed, if anyone wants to see just how much can be made out of how little subject matter, I suggest a glance at any nineteenthcentury text in traditional logic. The revolution in the subject was brought about by the work of the English logician Boole.
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