The logicians of this school were primarily interested in defining their terms and concepts and for this purpose developed an elaborate technical vocabulary and logical apparatus that came to be used by, other than philosophers, writers on law, poetics, aesthetics, and ritualistic liturgy.
So, alongside his more technical work in logic and logical theory, Aristotle investigates informal styles of argumentation and seeks to expose common patterns of fallacious reasoning.
Technical logical and epistemological discussions on sources of knowledge were not just pursued for their own sake.
The call for slavery reparations, most recently by the prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, is beset by logical, technical and political problems that render it unlikely that anything of substance will come of it.
From a technical viewpoint, there are several ways of combining models and logical systems and, in particular, of temporalising a logic: products, fusions, etc. (see the SEP entry on combining logics).
Its point is that we can't make a decision about what account of knowledge to accept without making all sorts of other decisions, not only about the technical, logical and metaphysical matters that are to the fore in the rest of the Theaetetus, but also about questions of deep ethical significance.
And he left you feeling that the connections — expressive as well as technical — between the contemporary scores and the Beethoven were both solid and logical.
If it spins slowly and gradually stops, you may have a more technical or logical pattern of thought.
Carnap explicitly takes up the "self-undercutting" charge against verifiability in Philosophy and Logical Syntax (1935), and Carnap is not interested in introducing a new technical term, 'meaning', so as to deny this technical property to unverifiable sentences.
