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“Portion of Babbage's Difference Engine” woodcut, B.H. Babbage, del. (June, 1853).[1] The elements of the language of symbolic logic are introduced in order to simply the understanding of many arguments. Since the arguments are evaluated according to their form only, arguments put into symbolic notation are less likely to be misinterpreted in our assessments of validity or invalidity due to their absence of vagueness, equivocation, amphiboly and emotive significance. Errors in argument evaluation usually are due to the issues of translation from ordinary language into symbolic forms Some uses of symbolic logic are suggested in the exercises accompanying these topics. Notes1. “Portion of Babbage's Difference Engine” from “Recreations of a Philosopher,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine 30 no. 175 (December, 1864), 34. Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, remarked about Babbage's subsequent design, “[T]he Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” “Translator's Notes,” in L.F. Menabrea, Sketch of the Analytical Engine (London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843), 696.↩ |
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