“As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.”

— William Stanley Jevons , The Theory of Political Economy

William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy (1871). Preface To The Second Edition, p. 14.
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