algebra of classes

: a branch of symbolic logic sometimes regarded as an independent discipline that deals with classes and has as its main operations the forming of logical products, sums, and complements

called also calculus of classes

compare inclusion, membership

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1908, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of algebra of classes was in 1908

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