Sentence examples for austere logical from inspiring English sources
Rejecting the austere, logical galactic empires envisioned in the sci-fi golden age, Iain M Banks developed the concept of the Culture, a vast post-human utopian society, organised by a class of machine demigods known as the Mind.
Russell infamously claimed that the difference between Leibniz's public and private writings is so significant that they effectively comprise two distinct philosophies: a theologically imbued fantasy designed to please royalty, and his true philosophy, derived from austere logical principles, that he revealed to a select few of his correspondents (Russell 1945).
The austere phrases were logical and easy to read.
As we shall see, Jones does not depart from Lotze's austere conception of logical form: an affirmative proposition S is P states an identity, and is true just in case the extension of S = the extension of P.
As noted, Jones's conception of logical form is austere: every positive proposition asserts an identity.
So it was oddly logical that the austere gloom of David Fincher's world was followed by the bizarre stylings of French fabulist Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
(But we cannot make our second-order language too austere: we need to have some non-logical descriptive vocabulary to express the (non-logical) content of the theory).
Understood in this austere sense, i.e. in terms of the mind's ability to recognize logical necessity, reason is not merely one instrument among many; instead, it becomes the means whereby the human soul comes into contact with truths that are devoid of the mutability afflicting the objects of the senses.
It was Wittgenstein's earlier philosophy, expressed in an austere literary style akin to Bauhaus in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that spurred the Vienna Circle to devise logical positivism, according to which all propositions are meaningless unless they are true in virtue of the meanings of their terms (eg two plus two equals four) or empirical propositions that are open to verification.
