The phrase 'logical dilemma' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a situation in which someone is faced with two possible courses of action, both of which have an undesirable outcome. For example, "Jack was presented with a logical dilemma; if he stayed, his career would be in jeopardy, but if he left, he would risk alienating his coworkers."
Along with the pope this makes two supreme authorities; the church reconciles this logical dilemma by asserting that the ecumenical council, acting with the pope, is supreme.
This question, again, "passes the buck" back to the main logical dilemma: whether the codon-to-aa assignment evolved from the aa-binding sites of r-aaRSs, or if it was, indeed, a frozen accident.
This long and difficult episode in their life is recounted by John Dawson in his biography of Gödel called "Logical Dilemmas," (Dawson 1997) as well as by Solomon Feferman in "Gödel's Life and Work," (Feferman 1986) to both of which the reader is referred.
The logical positivists faced a hard dilemma when trying to make sense of science.
It presents a careful logical argument that leads him to a dilemma: thermodynamics with its Second Law on the one hand and gas theory (in the form as Zermelo understood it) on the other cannot both be literally true.
As Keusch recounts, the participants deemed the most logical answer to solving the limited capacity dilemma of the African journals to be partnering them with counterparts in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The logical consequences for the European Union of its euro dilemma are not consequences that Britain, the world's sixth largest economy, relishes.
Similarly, the prisoners' dilemma scenario narrated in 1945's "Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty" illustrates how a formal, game-theoretic apparatus governs the lived experiences of subjects inserted into it.
Taking this analysis to its logical conclusion, hypothesis testing leads to an irresolvable dilemma.
So if we assume PC and PD, then the existence of dilemmas generates an inconsistency of the old-fashioned logical sort.
But whatever the understandable and heart-wrenching ethical and practical dilemmas of live prisoner exchange, this commentator can see no logical or ethical justification for prisoner exchange for a dead body.
