An Investigation of the Laws of Thought¶
Boole, G. (1854). An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.
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Primes¶
- Idempotence
- Idempotence is the property of an operation whose effect is identical whether applied once or any greater number of times —
f(f(x)) = f(x)for all relevantx— so that repetition adds nothing beyond the first application and the operation is safe to retry, replay, or duplicate in environments where delivery or execution is uncertain. The algebraic identity traces to Boole (1854), who establishedx · x = xas a defining law in the algebra of logic.This sourceWalton and Maberly. (Foundational algebraic logic text; establishes `x · x = x` as first formal statement of idempotency in algebraic structures; later formalized by Schröder and Huntington.)
- Idempotence is the property of an operation whose effect is identical whether applied once or any greater number of times —
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