Sentence examples for inconsistent logic from inspiring English sources

It enables us to get by with an inconsistent logic".

The report relies on hearsay and is marred by inconsistent logic.

Characters heave musical confession after musical confession at the audience, content to bathe us in their bathos even as they ignore the show's flimsy and often inconsistent logic.

In what's being touted as round two of their debate, Maddow defended the LCA while accusing Buchanan of "inconsistent logic" in regard to affirmative action.

The church's historic opposition to suicide makes for an interesting example of the inconsistent logic of Christians who support the death penalty.

In this case, it is the specific patient scenario, geriatric patients who are also renally impaired, that leads to conflict rather than inconsistent rule logic.

But there is no reason that a machine or a mathematician cannot use an inconsistent system of logic to prove things like Gödel's theorem and even understand that, just as Gödel did.

It would be arbitrary simply to assume the consistency of the theories in question, given that if such theories turn out to be in fact inconsistent, given classical logic, everything could be proved in them.

It is also inconsistent over much weaker logics such as minimal logic and partial logic.

Though the issue is too technical to be addressed here, and more appropriately dealt with in the entries on paraconsistent logic and inconsistent mathematics, the reader can consult Routley, 1979, Brady, 1989, for classical inconsistent set theories, and Weber, 2010b, 2012, for important recent results in the field.

Intuitively, a logic is inconsistent if it permits us to derive too much.