Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity: with remarks on Boole's System and on the Relation of Logic and Mathematics.

JEVONS, W. Stanley.

Published by London: Edward Stanford, 1864

About this Item

First edition of the great logician's first book on formal logic, a key refinement of Boolean calculus. Although Jevons is perhaps best known as an economist, his work on logic formed a key part of the wider 19th-century movement to link the discipline with mathematics. Pure Logic reduces the operations of Boolean calculus to a mechanical procedure. In this, Jevons anticipated many of the modern applications of logic in computer programming. He himself designed a "logical abacus" and a "logical piano" to perform the revised calculus, both of which bore strong affinities to his famed truth tables. Inoue & White 58; Risse II, p. 77. Octavo. Original blue pebble grain cloth, printed paper label to spine and front cover, covers panelled in blind, brown coated endpapers. Housed in custom red buckram solander box. Late 20th-century pencil ownership signature of Stanley C. Wisniewski, an American copyright judge, to front free endpaper. Light bumping and rubbing, loss to spine label affecting text, faint toning to spine, inner hinges split but holding firm, ghosting of bookplate to front pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing to contents: a very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity: with remarks on Boole's System and on the Relation of Logic and Mathematics.
• Publisher: London: Edward Stanford, 1864
• Edition: 1st Edition