Below you will find example sentences with "formal logic". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Formal Logic in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: formal
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 22.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "formal logic" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 22.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as analogous to formal logic, announcement into formal logic is made, mathematics, theory and aristotle stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with logic programming, formal education, formal system, formal education, formal system and formal languages, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with formal logic
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Formal logic: its scope and limits, (3rd ed.). (8 words)
Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic. (10 words)
Formal logic has been described as the science of deduction. (10 words)
Hodges, W: "A Shorter Model Theory", page 182. CUP, 1997 Using these methods, he found a way of using formal logic to show that there are self-consistent nonstandard models of the real number system that include infinite and infinitesimal numbers. (41 words)
I see we already have a thread full of folks pointing out that stubby used the perfectly understandable, most common definition of "begs the question" instead of the hyper-specific, more rare definition used in formal logic classes. (38 words)
Logic Over the course of his career, Quine published numerous technical and expository papers on formal logic, some of which are reprinted in his Selected Logic Papers and in The Ways of Paradox. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Logic Over the course of his career, Quine published numerous technical and expository papers on formal logic, some of which are reprinted in his Selected Logic Papers and in The Ways of Paradox.
Mathematical logic includes the mathematical study of logic and the applications of formal logic to other areas of mathematics; set theory is the branch of mathematics that studies sets or collections of objects.
Formal logic main Leibniz is one of the most important logicians between Aristotle and 1847, when George Boole and Augustus De Morgan each published books that began modern formal logic.
For a history of first-order logic and how it came to dominate formal logic, see José Ferreirós (2001).
For redirect Mathematical logic is a subfield of mathematics exploring the applications of formal logic to mathematics.
Logician and philosopher Alfred Tarski developed the theory for formal languages (such as formal logic ).
When a formal system is used to represent formal logic, only statement letters are represented directly.
Arguments do matter, but assessing the validity of our reasoning requires paying close attention to its progression more than it does knowledge of formal logic.
I see we already have a thread full of folks pointing out that stubby used the perfectly understandable, most common definition of "begs the question" instead of the hyper-specific, more rare definition used in formal logic classes.
The intense precision of her art – its strict formal logic – seems to allow for a wild, almost synaesthetic freedom.
Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic.
Cf. Łukasiewicz, (1951) Aristotle’s Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic, Chapter IV "Aristotle's System in Symbolic Form" (section on "Explanation of the Symbolism"), p. 78 and on.
Formal logic has been described as the science of deduction.
Formal logic: its scope and limits, (3rd ed.).
He elaborated the physical doctrines of the Stoics and their theory of knowledge and he created much of their formal logic.
Hodges, W: "A Shorter Model Theory", page 182. CUP, 1997 Using these methods, he found a way of using formal logic to show that there are self-consistent nonstandard models of the real number system that include infinite and infinitesimal numbers.
However, formal logic makes no such guarantee if any premise is false; the conclusion can be either true or false.
It would be a disastrous mistake, according to Wittgenstein, to see language as being in any way analogous to formal logic.
Logical school Formulation of the judge's announcement into formal logic is made difficult by the vague meaning of the word "surprise".
Modal logics extend the scope of formal logic to include the elements of modality (for example, possibility and necessity ).