Sentence examples for an exercise in logic from inspiring English sources

He said it was "an exercise in logic" that the more guns there were in society, the greater the number of shooting homicides.

If they do, the interest of the system as a whole must be greatly diminished; it can be admired as an exercise in logic but not valued for more than that.

Early computing was as an exercise in logic, mathematics, and electrical engineering, and its early advances academic.

Taylor's states of affairs seem to reflect the notion of fact at work in the neo-classical theory, though as an exercise in logic, they are officially n-tuples of objects and intensions.

Treat it like you would an art film or a psychedelic painting more an experience than an exercise in logic.

Basically, this is an exercise in brinksmanship the logic of which is well understood.

Twitter storm — a public tirade masquerading as an exercise in Aristotelian logic.

But an explanation of someone's divorce that begins, "During the upper Paleolithic period of human history (roughly 50,000BC to 10,000BC) the average human life expectancy at birth was 33" is going to be an exercise in fatuous logic.

A look back at the year provides us with an enlightened exercise in logic.

Basically, this is an exercise in brinksmanship — the logic of which is well understood.

Raskolnikov's journey may be, in essence, a 90-minute exercise in logic, but here it's a remarkably absorbing one.