A Great but Not a Good Idea: the Symbolic Logic of Law

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This is a very special effort on behalf of logic and the law, and may have been the first effort to codify the idea of the law in symbolic logic.  It appeared in the journal Nature on 24 April 1913, and I think in spite of it being interesting and even pretty, it just doesn't work for me.  But I'm reproducing the article (a long one for Nature) because it is really such an audacious thing, and a terrific idea, if not a good one.