Letter writing and similar forms of private individual lobbying are predicated on a logic of personal appeal or persuasion.
Inside baseball is predicated on a logic that goes something like this: The numbers don't lie, the people who understand the numbers are the ones who run the show, and being able to drop their names is evidence that you understand what's going on.
The choice between inflating or defaulting is predicated on false logic.
The ruling seems predicated on an inverse logic: that because some people don't know the word's origins, its continued use in a context where there are no explicit racial overtones is acceptable.
Unlike the KR languages introduced above, however, DAG semantics are not predicated on a formal logic as they are in the case of OWL.
Our deep and extensive understanding of deductive logic, in particular of the first-order logic of quantifiers and truth functions, is predicated on two metatheorems; semantical completeness of this logic and the decidability of proofs and deductions.
And yet the government of Boyko Borissov embarked on a foolish programme of austerity measures, the logic of which was almost entirely predicated on demonstrating to Brussels what a good pupil Bulgaria now was.
"We have all this logic of prior commitments and it's predicated on this sprawling pattern of growth," he said.
In all this, both schools and parents are responding to the logic, and the incentives, of a system predicated on competition as a zero-sum game.
By what conceivable logic, Scalia wondered, was the coach's firing predicated "on the basis of sex"?
We have demonstrated that a study predicated on using multiple interventional strategies to involve differing hierarchical levels, applying a socio-ecological logic with multiple target groups to induce systems change in IPC, is feasible [ 28].
