Sentence examples for logical character from inspiring English sources

The not uncommon assertion that art has a logical character, involves either an equivocation between conceptual logic and aesthetic logic, or a symbolic expression of the latter in terms of the former.

Antonelli (2000), for example, advocated such a single-domain free logic, which he called proto-semantics, but more recently (2007, p. 72) he has characterized all semantics for positive free logic as "somewhat artificial" and has questioned the logical character of free quantification in general.

The design issues that we consider in this section have a logical character.

The reality of history, he held, is Spirit, and the story of religion is the process by which Spirit true to its own internal logical character and following the dialectical pattern of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis (the reconciliation of the tension of opposite positions in a new unity that forms the basis of a further tension)—comes to full consciousness of itself.

As a result, descriptions of the logical character of a science come to the fore in discussions of theory.

The fact that such equilibria become more stable through learning gives friends the logical character of built-up investments, which most people take great pleasure in sentimentalizing.

Aderin-Pocock found refuge in physics, and her heroes were Spock and Sherlock Holmes: "I liked really logical characters.

Gertrude Stein called mysteries the most demanding form of fiction, because a good mystery requires a watertight plot with believable events and logical characters.

Although Hilbert was impressed by the work of Russell and Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica, he became convinced that the logicist attempt to reduce mathematics to logic could not succeed, due in particular to the non-logical character of their axiom of reducibility.

Duncan also established his reputation as a stoic player, to the extent that opposing fans taunted him as "Mr. Spock", the prototypical logical, detached character from Star Trek.

Although Principia succeeded in providing detailed derivations of many major theorems in finite and transfinite arithmetic, set theory, and elementary measure theory, two axioms in particular were arguably non-logical in character: the axiom of infinity and the axiom of reducibility.