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Logic   /lˈɑdʒɪk/   Listen
Logic

noun
1.
The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference.
2.
Reasoned and reasonable judgment.
3.
The principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation.  "By the logic of war"
4.
The system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations.
5.
A system of reasoning.  Synonyms: logical system, system of logic.



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"Logic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thought should influence our fortunes—that success should be unable to materialize before a persistent attitude of Negation? My friends, you will perceive that there is no break in this sequence of ideas; all is remorseless logic. ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... there was something a little pathetic to me in Harriet Buxton's life, though nothing in the least pathetic in her personality or her actions. Do not turn on me too fiercely, dear ladies, and demand of me with your well-known remorseless logic, what would have become of me if Harriet Buxton had not been beside me in my delirium, with nothing but a clinical thermometer on her knee, and a white apron around her waist. Do not, I beg you, for I shall shock all ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... Coleridge was perhaps the only contemporary from whom Wordsworth ever took an opinion; and that he did so from him, is mainly attributable to the fact that Coleridge did little more than reproduce to him his own notions, sometimes rectified by a subtler logic, but always rendered more attractive by new and ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... proposals reflected on the strength of my love for Lucy. Perhaps it did. But in the clearer light of today it seems to me that to his questions I made the only answers possible; and that only a demented person could have found serious flaws in the logic of his position. ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris
... story-teller who is really a great bore at a dinner-table; but Mr. Mahaffy is quite right in insisting that no bright social intercourse is possible without equality, and it is no objection to his book to say that it will not teach people how to talk cleverly. It is not logic that makes men reasonable, nor the science of ethics that makes men good, but it is always useful to analyse, to formularise and to investigate. The only thing to be regretted in the volume is the arid and jejune character of the style. ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde


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