"It is a common fallacy, underwritten at this date by the investment of several million dollars in a variety of retrieval hardware, that the algebra of George Boole (1847) is the appropriate formalism for retrieval system design. This view is as widely and uncritically accepted as it is wrong."
Mooers, Calvin. From a point of view of mathematical etc. techniques. Pages xvii-xxiii in Fairthorne, R. A. Towards information retrieval. London: Butterworths, 1961.
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