Sentence examples for logical and mathematical from inspiring English sources
And Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1956), can be seen as recommending a noncognitivist approach to logical and mathematical statements, according to which they do not record truths of some special kind but rather express rules which regulate the use of more ordinary or empirical statements.
The intention of the word logical was to insist on the distinctive nature of logical and mathematical truth.
No longer the central planks around which our beliefs are arrayed, logical and mathematical statements can (in principle) be modified, even abandoned, in the light of experience, as factual statements are.
Many philosophers have been dissatisfied with the stronger forms of this thesis, but only recently have attempts been made to spell out the precise sense in which logical and mathematical truths are informative and not tautologous.
In his later work, Dirac continued making important improvements and clarifications in the logical and mathematical presentation of quantum mechanics, in particular through his influential textbook The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930, with three subsequent major revisions).
Where Gardner was almost exclusively preoccupied with the logical and mathematical intricacies of the book — fair enough as a gift from one logician and mathematician to another — Burstein lets his annotations travel a little more horizontally, including references from the huge scholarly literature on Carroll that expands each year.
Called the General Problem Solver, it could find solutions to a wide range of fairly structured problems, such as logical proofs and mathematical word problems.
Most of the questions are logical conundrums and mathematical word problems -- brain teasers of the kind favored by the type of person who says, "Oh, gosh, yes," when Liane Hansen of "Weekend Edition" asks, "Are you a puzzle person?" Ware, for his part, disapproved of such diversions.
Without the additional fourth axiom, Reichenbach could not switch between logical conjunction and mathematical multiplication.
Our methods are based on the Petri net logical abstraction and mathematical programming techniques.
We begin by presenting a brief overview of the issues of interest within the classical study of argumentation: in particular, its relationship in terms of both similarities and important differences to traditional concepts of logical reasoning and mathematical proof.
