Sentence examples for logic of the idea from inspiring English sources

But the battle against entrenched tradition would not be possible, he said, were it not for the sheer logic of the idea of denuding legal prose of numbers.

There is, though, a kind of logic to the idea.

Although there has been concerted opposition to the creation of a new bureaucracy, there is certainly some logic to the idea of consolidating existing consumer protection functions in one agency.

A recent Pew Research Center study found that 20 percent of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated — the so-called "nones" — and surely as many people would describe themselves as lonely, so there's an awful logic to the idea of a new popular movement centering on our psychological rather than our spiritual well-being.

So I can't even imagine the logic of that idea.

A numerical study illustrates the logic of the proposed ideas clearly.

Yet there is a certain lack of logic in the idea of compensating families that decide not to take advantage of infrastructure provided by the state, some economists say.

At the core of the research project of relevance logic (or relevant logic) is the idea of capturing a notion of conditionality that doesn't fall afoul of the so-called fallacies of relevance, or paradoxes of the material and strict conditional.

Of the two main parts of Bolzano's formal logic, the extensional logic of ideas (the logic of classes) and the extensional logic of propositions, the first part comes from a long tradition beginning with Boethius (and derived from Aristotelian syllogistic) and ending – in Bolzano's times – with Gergonne.

In the early 20th century the rapid development of modern mathematical logic (see formal logic) similarly inspired the idea of a language in which grammatical form would be a sure guide to meaning, so that the inferences that could legitimately be drawn from propositions would be clearly visible on their surface.

There was not a shred of logic supporting the idea that England might win this match, yet you knew that he was not thinking that way.