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While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. And it explains what drove human beings to start studying logic in the first place.This study treats politics, economics, technology and geography as fundamental factors in generating an audience for logic - grounding the discipline's abstract principles in a compelling material narrative. The authors explain the turbulent times of the enigmatic Aristotle, the ancient Stoic Chrysippus, the medieval theologian Peter Abelard, and the modern thinkers George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Gottlob Frege, and Alan Turing. If A, Then B is the first book to situate the history of logic within the movements of a a larger social world.

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