NOUN
- any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity
How To Use formal logic In A Sentence
- Tarski made important contributions in many areas of mathematics: set theory, measure theory, topology, geometry, classical and universal algebra, algebraic logic, various branches of formal logic and metamathematics.
- The Presocratics were rational, certainly, and employed a certain non-formal logic.
- Understanding argument as a semantic conception or as pragmatic conception is the watershed between informal logic and classical logic.
- It says that no consistent formal logical system can prove its own consistency.
- In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. 2010 February « The Graveyard
- Unlike other Hellenistic schools, such as those of Aristotle and the Stoics, the Epicureans were not greatly interested in formal logic, but they certainly needed a theory of the formation of beliefs.
- In formal logic a contradiction is the signal of a defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Religion and Science
- There are other expositions of the theory of dialectics which present it in opposition to formal logic.
- Drawings were sequenced in the gallery according to an internal, formal logic; they spoke to one another like semaphores.
- The contradistinction of the two logics, formal logical and dialectical, is equally unjustified.
