Sentence examples for in logical terms from inspiring English sources

Then, two years later, he wrote enthusiastically about Altman's hallucinatory "3 Women": "…the movie mercifully doesn't attempt to explain what's happened in logical terms (any explanation would be disappointing, I think, compared to the continuing mystery).

The definitions of basic mathematical concepts (such as "number") in logical terms proposed by Gottlob Frege (in 1884), by Bertrand Russell (in 1903), and by their successors do not help in this enterprise.

(b) Can the modes of semantically valid logical inferences used in mathematics be expressed in logical terms?

Rather, Hintikka (1996: 184) proposes to ask: (a) Can the crucial mathematical concepts be defined in logical terms?

In logical terms, we are not allowed to quantify over a given class X when defining an element of X itself.

In logical terms, he represented a measurement by the state of a measuring system becoming correlated to the state of the measured system.

Secondly, the interesting cases of RI do not involve a shift from an impoverished point of view to an improved one — whether this is seen in epistemic terms (which Geach disputes — Geach, (1973)) or in purely logical terms.

Carnap's conception of the relevant sense of reducibility, which he always stated in precise logical terms, was initially rather narrow but gradually became more liberal.

There are some fundamental aspects of being human, he argues, that are difficult to cast in purely logical terms, but which our moral arguments must nevertheless take account of.

Indeed, one of Feferman's criticisms of the permutation invariance criterion is that it allows too many properly mathematical notions to be expressed in purely logical terms.

Beyond that, what actually had failed was the attempt to characterize for natural languages the class of cognitively significant propositions by recursive definitions in purely logical terms, either by relations of deducibility or translatability.