Oh, did I forget to mention that it is sometimes a little intense? Georg Cantor went made too. Have you read Frege? His scholarship is like what German scholarship, otherwise truly excellent and the very best across the board (I am a devoted admirer and in some ways a product of it, having studied in Germany), can sometimes be: deep, intense, dark, intense, brooding, very intense, dour, very intense, devoid of all lightness of being and spark of creativity. I would have gone mad too thinking the thoughts he did. He went half mad and did not publish for years. Frege is a total disaster, as far as I am concerned. Instead, someone like Frege is now something of a cult hero (I am told that, in spite of his antisemitic views, Frege is worshiped in intellectual circles in Israel, go figure). It is now commonly assumed that Boole tried to explain how we rationally think and utterly failed. These books were apparently not getting sold. The copy of the original edition that arrived from Ireland had this musty smell as if it had been for a long time in a humid storage space. I gave this book five stars but it is worth ten.
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