Laws of Form

New York: Julian Press, [1972]. [1st American ed.]. Octavo with green cloth boards and gilt stamping; dark green endpapers; xxiv, 141 pages; illustrations 24 cm Very good (+); light external wear; small glue spot on rear pastedown; clean and bright; tight binding. Hardcover.

"A principal intention of this essay is to separate what are known as algebras of logic from the subject of logic, and to re-align them with mathematics. Such algebras, commonly known as Boolean, appear mysterious because accounts of their properties at present reveal nothing of any mathematical interest about their arithmetics. Every algebra has an arithmetic, but Boole designed his algebra to fit logic, which is a possible interpretation of it, and certainly not its arithmetic. Later authors have, in this respect, copied Boole, with the result that nobody hitherto appears to have made any sustained attempt to elucidate and to study the primary, non-numerical arithmetic of the algebra in everyday use which now bears Boole's name."--Introduction