Because I am rarely capable of great subtlety and a friend of historical truth, I love subtle revisionism. So, I am grateful to Dirk Felleman for calling my attention to the title, "200 YEARS OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY" of a 2008 issue of the The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication. The issue was edited by world class scholars-philosophers, SANDRA LAPOINTE, MATTI EKLUND AND AMIE L. THOMASSON. So, where does analytical philosophy start?
From the table of contents I am guessing that analytical philosophy started with Bolzano's Beyträge zu einer begründeteren Darstellung der Mathematik. I could live with that result, although it ruins my claim that Boole is the Copernicus of analytical philosophy (and Sidgwick our Kepler),
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