Quote: reducing an argument to symbolic form determines its real premises, detects ambiguities

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The necessity of a rigorous determination of the real premises of a demonstration [for reducing an argument to symbolic form] ought not to be regarded as an evil; especially as, when that task is accomplished, every source of doubt or ambiguity is removed. In employing the method of this treatise, the order in which the premises are arranged, the mode of connexion which they exhibit, ... may be esteemed a matter of indifference, and the process of inference is conducted with a precision which might almost be termed mechanical.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: with symbolic logic, the process of inference is precise, almost mechanical

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