Sentence examples for mere logic from inspiring English sources
But some things can't be explained with mere logic.
Empedocles revolted against the denial of the reality of motion and plurality that was made by his Eleatic predecessors on the strength of mere logic.
The first is that, on the level of mere logic, it leaves out several possible hypotheses that would explain certain contemporary developments in Europe that would leave the value of MC strategies untouched.
As Vaccha turns to go, the Buddha calls out to him, "Vaccha, this teaching... is profound, subtle, hard to see, hard to comprehend, beyond the sphere of mere logic, to be understood only by the wise".
God can be known, seen in everything, with your logic, but only after you know Him without demanding mere logic.
Or with either-or logic, a mere logical negation involves an infinite regress in negating the "I"; one who negates the "I" retains the affirmative act of holding "I" in the mind as that which negates.
Perhaps most counterintuitively, the fatalist argues that this topsy-turvy doctrine can be established by mere reflection on the simple logic of propositions about the future.
Idealism, they point out, rested on something more substantial than a mere failure of logic or common-sense, and was therefore not vulnerable to the kind of simple knock-down arguments advanced by Russell and Moore.
This isn't a mere point of logic.
Even charlatanism is preferable to logic and mere reason: in "The Ballad of Peckham Rye" (1960), on the surface a romantic farce involving factory workers in the new British welfare state, Spark has the double-dealing, second-sighted Dougal Douglas tell the reader, plausibly, that "vision... is the first requisite of sanity".
