Article ID: CBB593764131

The Venn-MacColl Dispute in Nature (2020)

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During 1881, the British logicians John Venn and Hugh MacColl engaged in a brief dispute in Nature about ‘symbolical logic’. The letters to the editor shed interesting light on the early reception of MacColl’s contributions to logic and his position in the logical community of the Victorian era. Drawing on the correspondence between Venn and William Stanley Jevons, this paper analyzes the background and context of these letters, adding to the recent interest in the social dimensions of the development of British algebraic logic in the confusing intermediary period between the 1870s and 1890s.

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Authors & Contributors
Verburgt, Lukas M.
Dunning, David E.
Woods, John
Wilson, Robin J.
Watts, Iain P.
Wall, Byron Emerson
Concepts
Logic
Philosophy
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Algebra
Correspondence and corresponding
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
Germany
France
Americas
Institutions
Cambridge University
Macmillan
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