Studies in Logic and Probability Book

Preface A. E. Heath 7

Note in Editing R. Rhees 9

I The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) 49

II The Calculus of Logic (1848) 125

III Sketch of a Theory and Method of Probabilities, founded upon the Calculus of Logic (written sometime between 1848 and 1854) 141

IV Of Propositions Numerically Definite (published posthumously in 1868, probably written about 1850) 167

V The Claims of Science, especially as founded in its relation to Human Nature (1851) 187

VI Logic and Reasoning (after 1855, possibly several years later) 211

VII Extracts from a Paper entitled "On the Mathematical Theory of Logic and on the Philosophical Interpretation of its Methods and Processes" (1855 or 1856) 230

VIII On the Theory of Probabilities, and in particular on Mitchell's Problem of the Distribution of Fixed Stars (1851) 247

IX Further Observations on the Theory of Probabilities (1851) 260

X Proposed Question in the Theory of Probabilities (1851) 268

XI Solution of a Question in the Theory of Probabilities (1853) 270

XII Reply to some Observations by Mr. Wilbraham on the Theory of Chances developed in Professor Boole's "Laws of Thought" (1854) 274

XIII On the Conditions by which the Solutions of Questions in the Theory of Probabilities are Limited (1854) 280

XIV Further Observations in Reply to Mr. Wilbraham (1854) 289

XV On a General Method in the Theory of Probabilities (1854) 291

XVI On the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to the Question of the Combination of Testimonies or Judgments (Keith Prize Essay, 1857) 308

XVII On the Theory of Probabilities (1862) 386

Appendix A George Boole, F.R.S. By the Rev. Robert Harley (1866) 425

Appendix B On the Theory of Chances developed in Professor Boole's "Laws of Thought" By Henry Wilbraham (1854) 473

Appendix C On the Possibility of combining two or more probabilities of the same event, so as to form one Definite Probability. By Bishop Terrot (1856) 487

Index 497