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A Treatise on Universal Algebra

work by Whitehead

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history of logic

  • Zeno's paradox
    In history of logic: Other 19th-century logicians

    …Lutwidge Dodgson); and Whitehead, whose A Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898) was the last major English logical work in the algebraic tradition. Little of this work influenced Russell’s conception, which was soon to sweep through English-language logic; Russell was more influenced by Frege, Peano, and Schröder. The older nonsymbolic syllogistic…

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