Sentence examples for logical terms from inspiring English sources

Syllogistic, in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises.

While logical contradictions involve mathematical or logical terms, like class, number, and hence show that our logic or mathematics is problematic, semantical contradictions involve, besides purely logical terms, notions like "thought", "language", "symbolism", which, according to Ramsey, are empirical (not formal) terms.

Just think about it in logical terms, common sense.

Indeed, I would argue that this is also the case with mathematical and logical terms like "parallel line" and "entailment".

Carnap's conception of the relevant sense of reducibility, which he always stated in precise logical terms, was initially rather narrow but gradually became more liberal.

Then, two years later, he wrote enthusiastically about Altman's hallucinatory "3 Women": "…the movie mercifully doesn't attempt to explain what's happened in logical terms (any explanation would be disappointing, I think, compared to the continuing mystery).

But the truth of (7 - 10) depends upon analyticities of the further non-logical terms.

That may depend on additional factors, such as the meanings of the non-logical terms in the language.

By contrast, Tarski had merely observed that, at a still more fundamental level, he knew of no basis for a sharp distinction between logical and non-logical terms.

For example, no connective is also a quantifier or a variable, and the non-logical terms are not also parentheses or connectives.

Tarski says that the distinction between logical and extra-logical terms is not entirely arbitrary, because if we were to include signs like the implication sign or the universal quantifier among the extra-logical terms, "our definition of the concept of consequence would lead to results which obviously contradict ordinary usage" (Tarski 1983c, p. 418).