a new, highly generalized logic, branched off from the British mathematical
tradition of investigating alternative algebras; Peirce too attracted little atten-
tion at the time. The coincidence of three efforts in basic logic—Frege’s,
Peirce’s, and Russell’s—indicates that the move was available to be made by
extending current lines. Only after 1900, when the mathematical foundations
controversy attracted general attention in philosophy, did interest in a new
logic crystallize in the attention space.
Why should a highly technical area of mathematics spill over into philoso-
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