william-stanley-jevons

16 notes carry this tag — 10 claims, 2 observations, 1 question, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

What genuinely connects the Kodosky/Dennis MOC-indexing gap and Aikins's silence on Jevons's Logic Piano being weak on McGrew's *record* term

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-24 · argument-from-silence, mcgrew, moc-maintenance, kodosky, jack-dennis
The Aikins/Jevons record-weak silence finding qualifies for moc-argument-from-silence's cluster but is not yet listed there — a fifth, previously unflagged instance of the hub's recurring filing gap

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · argument-from-silence, moc-maintenance, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, mcgrew
The Kodosky/Dennis MOC-indexing note and the Aikins/Jevons record-grading note are a cosine-0.88 embedding false friend — shared vocabulary, not a shared claim

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · argument-from-silence, embedding-false-friend, bridge-investigation, bridge-seed-check, kodosky
Aikins's 1902 index and full text contain no "Machine," "Boole," "Piano," or "Mechanical" entries tied to Jevons — an absence that, per Cali's review and an independent 2026-10-12 re-sweep, holds across the captured text, not just the index

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, logic-piano, argument-from-silence, quote-provenance
Aikins's two page-cited engagements with Jevons both land inside the traditional-syllogism block of Elementary Lessons in Logic; the Logic Piano sits two thematic blocks later, under a heading Jevons himself calls "recent"

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, history-of-logic, bibliography
Aikins's silence on Jevons's Logic Piano is weak on McGrew's *record* term, not *notice* — the mirror image of Isaacs's P-257 silence, and a third failure mode for the hub

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · argument-from-silence, mcgrew, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, logic-piano
Jevons's own pedagogical textbook, Elementary Lessons in Logic, describes the Logic Piano in Lesson XXIII (pp.191–201) — sixty to seventy pages past the lessons Aikins quotes to the page

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, history-of-logic, quote-provenance
Which of Jevons's own logic texts supplies the 'p. 82'/'p. 83' conversion rules and the eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' Aikins quotes in his 1902 Principles of Logic?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, conversion, quote-provenance
The 1881 printing's own table of contents independently fixes Elementary Lessons in Logic's pagination (Lesson X at p.81, Lesson XV at p.126), consistent with the page numbers Aikins cites in 1902

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, quote-provenance, history-of-logic, bibliography
Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson X (pp.81–87), is the text behind Aikins's "Jevons, p. 82" and "Jevons, p. 83" conversion-rule citations

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, conversion, quote-provenance
Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson XV, "The Rules of the Syllogism" (pp.126–131), is the text behind the eight numbered rules Aikins reproduces in his Ch. XVI footnote

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, quote-provenance, history-of-logic
Aikins's own 1902 syllogism-rule chapters (Ch. XI, XVI) quote and contest Jevons's stated rules directly, independent of the jingle-fallacy chapter

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance
In Chapter XI of his 1902 Principles of Logic, Aikins quotes Jevons's stated conversion rules verbatim with page citations, then argues in his own words that no such rule can be followed 'blindly'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, conversion
In Chapter XVI of his 1902 Principles of Logic, Aikins reproduces Jevons's eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' verbatim in a footnote, then dismisses mechanical rule-following as inferior to his own interpretive method

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance
Aikins's 1902 Preface states, before any chapter begins, that his deductive-logic treatment deliberately omits 'the traditional rules of the syllogism' in favor of his own stated 'principles'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, history-of-logic
Which of Jevons's own logic texts supplies the 'p. 82'/'p. 83' conversion rules and the eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' Aikins quotes in his 1902 Principles of Logic?

question answered 2026-09-30 · herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance, history-of-logic