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Old 10-08-2008, 02:48 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Victor View Post
Frege and Russell may have failed but George Spencer-Brown succeeded in his book, "The Laws of Form".

In which all of mathematics begins with an injunction -

"Make a distinction".
Many people on the net rave about it, but I hadn't heard of it. How is it different from a simple explanation of boolean algebra?
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