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Meanings of formal logic in English
Portuguese
lógica matemática 
Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity.
The study of propositions, statements, and deductive arguments; the practice of deriving conclusions from premises.
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Examples for "symbolic logic"
Examples for "symbolic logic"
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Forty minutes when he was attending a symbolic logic lecture.
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Semantics, symbolic logic, psychoanalysis-theyhad all been devices whereby speech could either be refined or bypassed.
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Gerd was at the desk, spoiling notepaper in an effort to work something out by symbolic logic.
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Ryuji's challenging theory of symbolic logic had already been made public, albeit in piecemeal form, in specialist journals.
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They weighed and tested and analyzed and made copious notes; in shorthand and in the more esoteric characters of symbolic logic.
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It's simply a question of logic, of mathematical logic.
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In mathematical logic, you can prove or disprove universal statements by a variety of methods.
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There's mathematical logic to music which, if correctly employed, can result in the stimulation of emotion.
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DeLong, H. (1971), "A profile of mathematical logic", Addison Wesley
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So okay, first of all, I don't necessarily believe in that, there's no mathematical logic to this assumption.
Usage of formal logic in English
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Admirers of philosophy and formal logic evidently regard abstractions as real things.
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The introduction to the two principal parts is furnished by formal logic.
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Hence division by dichotomy comes strictly within the province of formal logic.
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Perhaps political philosophy is for you, or philosophy of mind, or formal logic.
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Taken by itself, the Greek argument is a nice piece of formal logic.
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Some folks can't handle abstract reasoning and formal logic, others thrive on it.
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On the inability of formal logic to furnish reliable information.
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But then this is the only sense which formal logic is competent to recognise.
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You see how mercilessly formal logic can dispose of me.
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You are too much for me with your formal logic.
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A further difficulty with formal logic is that the word is everything and the speaker nothing.
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That academic philosophy and formal logic have hampered rather than advanced knowledge, and should be abandoned.
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Here are the three laws of formal logic.
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The traditional gnoseological approach reflects the same structure, as does formal logic, based on Aristotle's syllogistic theory.
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The material correctness of a definition is, as we have already seen, a matter extraneous to formal logic.
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The following sections use formal logic.
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