Category Archives: logic

Killed by Homeopathy

Posted on December 8, 2012 by thonyc

The mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole died on the 8th December 1864. What most people don’t realise is that he was in all probability killed by homeopathy. [curious?]

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The Cult of St Alan of Bletchley Park

Posted on November 21, 2011 by thonyc

I realise that to rail against anything published in the Daily Fail is about as effective as pissing against the wind in a force 8 gale but this article on Alan Turing got so up my nose that I have decided to … Continue reading →

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A lover of paradoxes

Posted on June 27, 2011 by thonyc

Today is the birthday of my favourite Victorian, Augustus De Morgan

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