"It is to be remembered that it is the business of science not to create laws, but to discover them."
George Boole (1815-1864), self-taught mathematician, philosopher, logician and professor, then articulated further in his 1854 book An Investigation of The Laws of Thought...
"We do not originate the constitution of our own minds, greatly as it may be in our power to modify their character. And as the laws of the human intellect do not depend upon our will, so the forms of the science, of which they constitute the basis, are in all essential regards independent of individual choice."
The same Boole as Boolean logic... Thus the book currently studying in preparation for my next book project (3rd posted image), upon reading thus far; Hazlitt's Thinking as a Science, Jevons' Elementary Lessons in Logic Deductive and Inductive, Porphyry's Isagoge, Aristotle's Organon, La Boétie's The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Spooner's Natural Law, Rothbard's Anatomy of the State, with a couple of stacks yet to read and study...
George Boole's book (pdf), courtesy of Project Guttenberg...
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