Sentence examples for method of logical from inspiring English sources

Boole's original and remarkable general symbolic method of logical inference, fully stated in Laws of Thought (1854), enables one, given any propositions involving any number of terms, to draw conclusions that are logically contained in the premises.

In particular, Einstein's 1905 analysis of the conventionality of simultaneity in the special theory of relativity became something of a methodological paradigm, prompting Reichenbach's own method of "logical analysis" of physical theories into subjective (definitional, conventional) and objective (empirical) components.

In essence, Carnap's method of quasi-analysis is just that method of logical abstraction that Frege had used in §62 of the Grundlagen (albeit without seeing it as 'abstraction').

He takes it to follow that the necessary truth of an arithmetic proposition such as "7 + 5 = 12" cannot be established by any method of logical or conceptual analysis (Anderson 2004), but can be established by intuitive synthesis (Parsons 1969).

In a paper called 'The Method of Logical Analysis', given at a conference in 1934, for example, he wrote: "The logical analysis of a particular expression consists in the setting-up of a linguistic system and the placing of that expression in this system".

From the outset, Bernoulli wished for his work to demonstrate that combinatorics and probability theory would have numerous real-world applications in all facets of society in the line of Graunt's and de Witt's work— and would serve as a rigorous method of logical reasoning under insufficient evidence, as used in courtrooms and in moral judgements.

Students who are taught to solve math problems, for example, focus on learning established methods of logical inference or deduction, both highly procedural.

Whereas at the mid-point of the twentieth century philosophy of religion was virtually defined by the assumptions and methods of logical positivism and empiricism, in subsequent years new and technically rigorous contributions by religiously committed philosophers began to enliven old theistic arguments.

More important was Anselm's general method of using logical techniques in theology.

They pioneer a method of using logical analysis in a theological context which Augustine had anticipated but not developed.

* ages of some respondents were outside the limits of the age groups approximately aimed at in the recruitment phase (see Methods) Analysis of logical consistency showed on average 9.4% violations on the VAS (range 9%13%13% for the 7 pairs), 16.1% for TTO-LE (range 10%29%%), and 13.6% for TTO-10 (range 6%28%28%).