Formal logic is nothing but the study of the properties com… - Henri Poincaré

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Formal logic is nothing but the study of the properties common to all classifications; it teaches us that two soldiers who are members of the same regiment belong by this very fact to the same brigade, and consequently to the same division; and the whole theory of the syllogism is reduced to this.

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Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.

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Alternative Names: Jules Henri Poincare • Henri Poincare • Poincare • Jules Henri Poincaré • Poincaré

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