Sentence examples for logical debate from inspiring English sources

The ultimate put-down comes when the college porter outstmarts George in logical debate.

Socrates spoke about asking questions and decision making, in terms of developing citizens to "produce a flourishing city-state" through reasoning and logical debate.

"Like George W Bush, when she has a problem she listens to God much more than having rational conversations with her ministers," says Broomfield. "When she was in office, she wasn't interested in day-to-day legislation, the practicabilities, logical debate.

They do it by valuing A players and logical debate; they're always willing to discuss "why".

But no one is interested in a logical debate.

Logical debate to say who the better player is fails to exist when one consistently beats up on an opponent.

The point readily generalizes to entire theories, and to serious philosophical and logical debates.

However, from his theological question and a few of the censured articles it is clear that he was familiar with the logical debates of his time.

This attitude makes the Metalogicon an important source of information about twelfth-century logical debates, though not for any particular contributions to them.

It is no secret, especially here in America, that we live in a post-Enlightenment age in which rationality, science, evidence, logical argument and debate have lost the battle in many sectors, and perhaps even in society generally, to superstition, faith, opinion and orthodoxy.

Historical evidence suggests that a divide between Eastern and Occidental thinking has existed at least since ancient times, a tradition of adversarial debate, formal logical argument and analytic deduction flowering in Greece, while in China an appreciation for context and complexity, dialectical argument and a tolerance for the "yin and yang" of life flourished.