Sentence examples for natural logic from inspiring English sources

But this does not prevent practical reasoning, either by direct use of such quantifiers in the logical representations of sentences (an approach in the spirit of natural logic), or by reducing them to set-theoretic or mereological relations within an FOL framework.

A near-identity of linguistics and "natural logic" has been claimed by the U.S. linguist George Lakoff.

"In general, we are actively monitoring all the business opportunities and following the natural logic, we wouldn't invest a big amount of money to the projects where we would not have a guarantee of the financial return".

This is the natural logic of the matter.... Kissinger: Our military presence in Taiwan at this moment is composed of two elements, the two-thirds of it which is related to activities in other parts of Asia, and the one-third of it which is related to the defense of Taiwan.

Skeptics, meanwhile, will point to the arc of the twin tale, which leads as if by natural logic from dream to disillusion: look at Che, they will say, standing on a mountainside and showing his fellow-rebels their destination, which turns out to be a sea of sullen fog.

Our analysis of the interviews applied the proposal of argumentative analysis of natural logic.

If one adopts the standpoint of natural deduction, then intuitionistic logic is a natural logical system.

Weaning marks the fateful moment when the natural, evolutionary logic represented by a ruminant grazing on grass bumps up against the industrial logic that, with stunning speed, turns that animal into a box of beef.

At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers' logic, from the first of them, which holds that 'up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality'.

Apparently in response to a request that he explain Aristotle's Physics, Albertus undertook as he states at the beginning of his Physica—"to make... intelligible to the Latins" all the branches of natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics.

He was tutored by the Reverend George Haggerstone, who first introduced him to higher mathematics, natural philosophy, logic, and metaphysics through the works of Isaac Watts, Willem 's Gravesande, and John Locke.