Sentence examples for western logic from inspiring English sources

Only flawed Western "logic" links turmoil among Muslims around the world to the spurious notion that a Muslim head scarf has "true meaning" in France.

"Israel operated on the simple Western logic of supporting the rival of your enemy," said Shaul Mishal, a professor at Tel Aviv University and the co-author of a scholarly history, "The Palestinian Hamas".

The ancient Greeks, progenitors of western logic, had many prepositions that do bizarre double duty to the English eye: meta means both with and after; kata means both according to and against.

To gauge the cost of this mistake on society at large, Heidegger looked at cosmopolitanism, the rights of man, the rise of science -- what he took to be the social and political counterparts of Western logic and reason -- and saw nothing but the vulgarities of mass society and a soulless technology that had supplanted a once glorious soldier ethic.

Impressed with Western logic and scientific method, Chinese intellectuals were eager to explore what Hu Shih called "the development of the logical method" in their own tradition.

If the books on logic they wrote in Arabic were simply Western logic, then their works fall outside the purview of this entry; but I note that Butrus al-Tûlâwî (d.

In its emphasis on sequence an effect does not preexist in its cause the Nyaya theory is at variance with the Samkhya-Yoga and Vedantist views, but it is not unlike modern Western inductive logic in this respect.

In ISIS, we are dealing with an organization, a caliphate, a movement that rejects Western Aristotelian logic (and forget about accepted norms of warfare).

This is important for analysing how specific non-Western institutional logics may facilitate or constrain Triple Helix activities.

"Universities are one of the few areas of American culture and, really, Western culture where market logic doesn't trump everything else," he told me in a phone conversation.

Placebos smacked of deception and quackery, and what's worse, upended the logic of Western medicine.