Joel Uckelman on 16 Oct 2003 03:05:47 -0000


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Re: [hosers-talk] ode to de morgan and his law


Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> Man, I wish there were a discipline still backwards enough that I could 
> get some ass-simple "law" named after me and taught in every high school 
> logic class a 130+ years after I died.

Classical logic did not exist during De Morgan's lifetime. His name was 
applied posthumously to the eponymous laws due to their similarity with 
something he did in abstract algebra.

-- 
J.


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