Thanks for the correction!
The full text of Boole's remarkable 1853 book is at
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15114
He refers to Spinoza and to a Samuel Clarke; there might be some
others, but the book has no bibliography.

I don't have time to read it now, but I suspect that it has a lot of
"new" ideas. That is, "new" in the sense that
(1) it all seems extremely original and 'fresh' and
(2) I suspect that few recent philosophers have read it.


On Aug 24, 2008, at 5:04 PM, AT Murray wrote:

> --- In ai-philosophy@yahoogroups.com, Marvin Minsky <minsky@...>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Jim Bromer wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> This is a beautiful illustration. One asks about the
>> origin of Logic and hears some answers:
>> 1. It came from Boole
>> 2. But Boole learned from Aristotle,
>> 3. Who, in turn, learned, Socrates,
>> 4. Who, in turn, learned from Plato,
>> 5. Who, in turn, learned from God,
>> 6. Which means, "Stop Asking This Question."
>
> The sequence goes more like the following.
>
> 1. It came from Boole
> 2. But Boole learned from Aristotle,
> 3. Who, in turn, learned from Plato,
> 4. Who, in turn, learned, from Socrates,
> 5. Who, in turn, learned from God,
> 6. Which means, "Stop Asking This Question."
>
> Plato was the "channeler" of Socrates.
>
> Mentifex (Mindmaker)
> --
> http://mind.sourceforge.net/aisteps.html
>