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Logic   /lˈɑdʒɪk/   Listen
Logic

noun
1.
The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference.
2.
Reasoned and reasonable judgment.
3.
The principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation.  "By the logic of war"
4.
The system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations.
5.
A system of reasoning.  Synonyms: logical system, system of logic.



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"Logic" Quotes from Famous Books



... would fail to produce from the pigeon-holes of all the Chanceries a rival to this extraordinary composition, the ill-arranged paragraphs of which formed an inextricable jumble of irrelevant material, in which bad logic, bad history, and barren invective were confusedly intermingled in a torrent of turgid rhetoric. The extent of its range may be judged from the fact that Shakespeare's allusions to Joan of Arc were not deemed too remote from the subject of conscription in Ireland during the Great War to find a place ...
— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill

... the throne, the shrewd father replied, that he had found no passage in the Bible that prohibits a King of Denmark from having two wives; and has not the democratic Fijian as good a right to that logic as the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various

... ordeal for a man to stand upright on his two legs unswaying, and decide that in all the universe he finds for himself but one freedom—namely, the anticipating of the day of his death. With this man this is the hour of the white logic (of which more anon), when he knows that he may know only the laws of things—the meaning of things never. This is his danger hour. His feet are taking hold of the pathway that leads ...
— John Barleycorn • Jack London

... for more grace and love. There was an amazing brazenness about most of those who had the "tongues," an air of superiority, a sort of spiritual pride that disgusted him. When he attempted to reason with them he found them unreasonably impervious to argument or logic. He finally concluded that the doctrine was based on a false claim, a ...
— Around Old Bethany • Robert Lee Berry

... unfortunate creature herself, was as old as her clothes were. Now, by one, I mean by Ledantec and myself, that is to say, by two men who were abominably drunk and who were arguing with the special logic of intoxication. ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant


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