logical error

collocation in English

meaningsoflogicalanderror

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logical
adjective
uk
/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
using ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈer.ər/us
/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition oflogicalanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflogical error

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We can get a certain distance by adding information and correctinglogicalerror.
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The reviewers' interpretation of this is alogicalerror(nonsequitur).
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Here, surely, we have not only historical fantasy butlogicalerror.
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Confidence in numbers is a simple recapitulation of the generallogicalerrorof induction of general laws from specific facts.
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Weak uses of significance tests to evaluate theories are further compounded by a conceptual andlogicalerrorin reasoning that has nothing to do with statistics.
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It is no good talking about alogicalerroror something of that sort.
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If you do not accept that, you are making alogicalerror.
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One should be careful not to make thelogicalerrorknown as reification, which confuses concept and reality.
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Confrontation of these issues causes alogicalerrorand the android shuts down.
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Others posit that this line of argument commits thelogicalerrorof appeal to probability.
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Logicalerror: can cause panelists to evaluate samples according to particular qualities because they appear to be 1... logically associated with other characteristics.
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Ordinarily, programmers do this in order to make their program text clearer and to obtain help from the compiler's type-checker in detecting logical errors.
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First, the classifier detects logical errors in the ontology, which greatly increases confidence that the ontology is correct.
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To fix logical errors, programmers have to analyze their program symptoms and understand how these symptoms have been produced.
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The different users using the model for various projects have assessed its technical accuracy, such as logical errors, programming formulas, and data inputs and predictive validity.
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Its authors, having discovered that fact half-way through, conclude with one of the classical logical errors that is described in any elementary textbook.
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As the name implied, the character often came out with strings of logical errors and tautologies.
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Material fallacies are not logical errors because the conclusion does follow from the premises.
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