Sentence examples for logic thing from inspiring English sources

These days the professor would be up on a double charge of sexism and racism, but I was – and remain – profoundly grateful, because once the logic thing finally "clicked", it became the promised golden key and many other aspects of acquired knowledge swam, admittedly quite slowly, into focus.

"It's one of those strange corporate logic things that, to us, makes what we're doing on the show even funnier," Mr. Ouweleen said.

This example is particularly interesting because the answer to the Dawkins question should give an intuitive interpretation of the laws of linear logic, a thing that this logic has badly needed.

As a matter of logic, both things cannot be true.

But as we have seen, for Tûsî's colleagues at Maragha, Avicenna's identification of secondary intelligibles as the subject matter of logic excludes things which are properly investigated in logic.

According to standard logic, "some things are F" is true only if each of those things is F. But, as McKay and others point out, "The students surrounded the building" could be true even though it is false to say of Bob (one of the students) that he surrounded the building (McKay 2005, chapter 1).

Now, logic considers things in one of two ways: in terms of first intentions, that is, as the things themselves and thus belonging to one of the ten highest kinds of being the categories; in terms of second intentions, that is, considering things as considered by the intellect and in respect to other things (DOS 459).

They tend to ascribe the same logic to things that are not necessarily connected.

Mr. Robinson said: "Napster has started this Orwellian logic where things aren't really what they seem.

"But it is the logic of things, if we make a government together, then together we will decide who the best presidential candidate is," he said.

By which logic, should things turn out better than expected under a President Hollande, there would be no reason for us not to back him for re-election in 2017.