Sentence examples for tacit logic from inspiring English sources

Hume's so-called "experiments" do not have the tacit logic of Newtonian experiments; they almost never offer measurements (which are very important for Newton's focus on successive approximation); they do not connect to a tight mathematical structure (Smith 2002).

That's pretty much the tacit logic of polling.

For this, it tacitly refers to logic and general experience" (Thayer 1898: 265).

Up to now we have tacitly assumed our background logic to be the usual classical logic.

No longer does such existence derive from a kind of built-in, or tacit, default assumption of the underlying logic.

While it is doubtful that Carnap or the other positivists held the crude form of conventionalism attacked by Quine's argument, the argument suggests that conventionalism about logic requires an account of "tacit" conventions.

A numbed resignation has bred a new logic, that even vociferous supporters of stronger curbs on gun ownership seem tacitly to accept.

In a cascade of circular logic, this status helps discourage research into those very medical benefits while providing a tacit national endorsement of our collective tendency to screw over black and hispanic kids who use the drug no more often than their white peers.

The activists might reply: "We won't accept that logic, because – aside from the fact that you're ruining the environment, perhaps with the tacit acceptance of regulators whom you've bought off – your pollution is just shifting the cost of your business to society, which has to deal with all of these sick and/or dead people.

Temporal Logic is obtained by adding the tense operators to an existing logic; above this was tacitly assumed to be the classical Propositional Calculus.

480 524) have their main importance as preservers of alternative interpretations of Aristotle's logic and as sources for lost Peripatetic and Stoic works—with elements of Stoic logic either tacitly adopted or loudly decried.