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Add. MS a/202/143
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Letter from Augustus De Morgan
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- 3 Mar. 1860 (Creation)
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41 Chalcot Villas, Adelaide Road NW - Thanks him for his History of Discovery [Philosophy of Discovery 1860?]. Notes that WW has 'at last admitted that Induction = Induction means Induction < > Induction. Whether you have gone as far with logic I have not yet found out'. Roger Bacon is a great favourite of his 'and he ought to be allowed his share of the name of Bacon'. Wonders if less dignified names hinder reputations; says a latinised version of Sheepshanks' name would have 'looked grand' in the Middle Ages. In a postscript, he shares a few notes on the book.
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Published in part and with some alteration to names made fun of in De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth, Memoir of Augustus De Morgan. London, 1882.