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The category of fallacies with problematic premises (reminiscent of Whately's "premises unduly assumed") shows a concern with argument evaluation over and beyond logical or inference evaluation, drawing the informal logic approach away from purely logical concerns towards an epistemic conception of fallacies.
The vision of language that Benjamin advances here is moving precisely because it is beyond logical proof, and because it expresses so eloquently his longing for meaning in a world that usually presents itself as mere chaos.
In 1953 the Chinese Nationalist historian and diplomat Hu Shih (1891 1962) published an important essay on the history of Zen in China, in which he challenged Suzuki's characterization of Zen as irrational and beyond logical understanding.
Definitional reflection is an approach to proof-theoretic semantics that takes up this challenge and attempts to build a theory whose range of application goes beyond logical constants.
Emergence has been described beyond logical relations, synchronically as an ontological property and diachronically as a material process of fusion, in which the powers of the separate constituents lose their separate existence and effects (Humphreys 1997).
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A popular steak house, Zietz's Buckhorn, which has occupied the same site since 1893, possibly carries the wilderness motif beyond its logical limits.
The seven basketball-centric colleges could be plotting an open revolt against the league expanding beyond all logical parameters in the name of the almighty football rat race.
But beyond the logical explanations, the atmosphere of those late-night walks is what really chills the blood and makes us look forward to... "Bloody Tuesday," perhaps?
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