Sentence examples for austere logic from inspiring English sources

The discovery of natural selection, the austere logic of reproducing systems, was only Darwin's first step.

And yet, on the foot, it had a tremendous logic: austere at the base, and overflowing at the top — what you might wear if the party invite read Mardi Gras formal.

This led Quine at least sometimes to endorse an extended criterion of ontological commitment: a theory is ontologically committed to an entity or kind of entity if and only if every acceptable paraphrase of the theory into (austere) first-order predicate logic is ontologically committed to that entity or kind of entity.

The structure too has an apparently basic logic, with its austere lines building intensity through repetition.

Strictly speaking, Quine's criterion is only to be applied to theories couched within the following especially austere form of first-order predicate logic: there are first-order existential and universal quantifiers but no other variable-binding operators; there are predicates, including identity, but no function symbols or individual constants.

An architect whose scalpel-like logic often results in buildings of austere sophistication, Chipperfield has been trumpeted as one of the finest architects in the country for much of the past decade, apparently to little avail: you could count his significant British projects on one hand.

Her expression is austere.

These are austere times.

"Really austere.

Austere, yes.

It's very austere".