“A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.”

Source: Mathematical Monads (1889), p. 268

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American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

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