Sentence examples for language of reasoning from inspiring English sources

Leibniz envisioned a universal language of reasoning (his characteristica universalis) which would reduce argumentation to calculation, so that "there would be no more need of disputation between two philosophers than between two accountants.

But as the course of logical theory from the late nineteenth-century forward turned more and more to axiomatic systems and formal languages, the study of reasoning and natural language argumentation received much less attention, and hence developments in the study of fallacies almost came to a standstill.

Other recent work includes the development of languages for reasoning about time-dependent data such as "the account was paid yesterday".

This paper presents a commonsense language for reasoning about action and causation whose semantics is expressed by way of counterfactuals.

In his preface, Razan explained the crucial nature of language by reasoning that "the minds of the sages and worthies are manifest in their words, and their words are found in their writings.

Capable as these machines are, they are not always up to deciphering the ambiguity of human language and the mystery of reasoning.

But as a mathematician with expertise in the use of language in reasoning, I find the much-touted central pillar of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's case against him does not stand up to even a cursory examination.

He is quite unsparing in his analysis of civil rights; why wouldn't he also articulate his case in terms of language and reasoning, if that was his real purpose?

The position of home secretary needs to be filled by someone with a strong sense of the importance of the rule of law; someone capable of using measured language and reasoning even in the face of rabid unreason and prejudice.

I take exception to Holder's language, but not his line of reasoning.

Yet these flashes come not in the form of questions and answers, or any other form of reasoning or language.