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Single Idea 17744

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic ]

Full Idea

De Morgan started the sustained interest in the study of relations and their properties.

Gist of Idea

De Morgan started the study of relations and their properties

Source

report of Augustus De Morgan (On the Syllogism IV [1859]) by Michal Walicki - Introduction to Mathematical Logic History D.1.1

Book Ref

Walicki,Michal: 'Introduction to Mathematical Logic' [World Scientific 2012], p.21

Related Idea

Idea 18913 Traditional term logic struggled to express relations [Engelbretsen]

The 3 ideas from Augustus De Morgan

17744 De Morgan started the study of relations and their properties [De Morgan, by Walicki]
13501 De Morgan found inferences involving relations, which eluded Aristotle's syllogistic [De Morgan, by Hart,WD]
17743 De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]