strict logic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrictandlogic
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strict
adjective
uk/strɪkt/us/strɪkt/
strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do ...
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logic
noun[U]
uk/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪk/us/ˈlɑː.dʒɪk/
a particular way of thinking, especially one that is reasonable and based on ...
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(Definition ofstrictandlogicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We were to a certain extent, in relation to close corporations, departing only from thestrictlogicof the original proposals.
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He is right thatstrictlogicwould incline in the direction of the amendment to delete the subsection.
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This is a humanitarian question rather than a matter of thestrictlogicof the landlord-tenant relationship.
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I doubt if instrictlogicit could be argued that they were necessities, but they are certainly necessities for civilised life.
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It does not stand up tostrictlogicof importance.
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We have long abandonedstrictlogicin the matter.
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We may pay too high a price forstrictlogicand for abstract justice.
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There is no question of remarriage, and it is worthy of respect both from the point of view of morality and ofstrictlogic.
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I certainly do not wish to argue that the present state of affairs can be justified onstrictlogic.
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Unhappily, neither executive nor legislative action is, or ever can be, based uponstrictlogic.
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I suppose instrictlogicit would be difficult to resist this.
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Perhaps instrictlogicthey are right, but when we come to deal with anomalies we can always find a thousand others.
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What is the reason that we should do this—openly and knowingly do it, contrary tostrictlogicor legality?
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I think instrictlogic—she depended heavily onstrictlogic—there is very little that one can say against her argument on its merits.
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Perhaps, on thestrictlogicof profits and returns, he is right.
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We look at these things from the point of view of whether they are practical, and not whether they fit in withstrictlogic.
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I have no objection whatever to departing fromstrictlogicin matters of this kind.
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I take my noble friend's point that the word "special" is, instrictlogic, probably superfluous and serves no particularly useful purpose.
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This is a typical instance where thestrictlogicof the situation must give way to the considerations of common sense.
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Our laws are full of thin ends of the wedge which ought, instrictlogic, to be driven in up to the thick end, but they are not.
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