formal logic

collocation in English

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formal
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məl/us
/ˈfɔːr.məl/
public ...
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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 offormalandlogicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofformal logic

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Let us move toformallogic.
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Artificial intelligence has recently turned toformallogicin the search for powerful knowledge representation languages.
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What we shall not find in our results is that character of elegance and system which belongs to the constructions offormallogic.
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People do not tend to employformallogicwhen thinking.
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Observation of known subjects thus leads, viaformallogic, to an ability to distinguish species, even in paintings where the subject is not immediately recognizable.
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Language variation is often for reasons that have little to do with the mere absence of systems offormallogic.
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In the world of computer-based knowledge representation, ontologies rely onformallogic(axioms) to express objects and their relationships.
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However, for the reader who perseveres or who has previous acquaintance with advancedformallogic, there is clearly a great deal of valuable material here.
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Non-monotonic logics have been developed to deal with changes and revisions in knowledge bases that are represented in aformallogic.
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From discourse to logic : introduction to model-theoretic semantics of natural language,formallogicand discourse representation.
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This is, to my knowledge, the first proposal of a "wormhole" between the hitherto mutually isolated universes offormallogicand empirical neuroscience.
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This means that good decision-making will not necessarily conform to the rules offormallogic.
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This response is a nonconscious error in the sense that subjects are unaware that their response does not conform to the rules offormallogic.
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Then it could be channeled through a filter offormallogicand properly cleansed.
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Formallogicis concerned with nothing but the rules of consistent thought.
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From discourse to logic : introduction to modeltheoretic semantics of natural language,formallogicand discourse representation.
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From discourse to logic : introduction to modeltheoretic semantics of natural language,formallogicand discourse representation theory.
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Outside of mathematics andformallogic, we are not dealing with certainty or deductive relations between premises and conclusions.
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In the sense offormallogic, residual factors and constitutive factors may also evince certain similarities.
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