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It is the purpose of this work to present a thorough investigation of the various systems of Symbolic Reasoning allied to ordinary Algebra. The chief examples of such systems are Hamilton's Quaternions, Grassmann's Calculus of Extension, and Boole's Symbolic Logic. Such algebras have an intrinsic value for separate detailed study; also they are worthy of a comparative study, for the sake of the light thereby thrown on the general theory of symbolic reasoning, and on algebraic symbolism in particular.
The comparative study necessarily presupposes some previous separate study, comparison being impossible without knowledge. Accordingly after the general principles of the whole subject have been discussed in Book I. of this volume, the remaining books of the volume are devoted to the separate study of the Algebra of Symbolic Logic, and of Grassmann's Calculus of Extension, and of the ideas involved in them. The idea of a generalized conception of space has been made prominent, in the belief that the properties and operations involved in it can be made to form a uniform method of interpretation of the various algebras.
Thus it is hoped in this work to exhibit the algebras both as systems of symbolism, and also as engines for the investigation of the possibilities of thought and reasoning connected with the abstract general idea of space. A natural mode of comparison between the algebras is thus at once provided by the unity of the subject-matters of their interpretation.
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