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Definition of Formal logic
1. Noun. Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity.
Generic synonyms: Logic, Logical System, System Of Logic
Specialized synonyms: Boolean Algebra, Boolean Logic, Propositional Calculus, Propositional Logic, Functional Calculus, Predicate Calculus, Modal Logic, Fuzzy Logic
Definition of Formal logic
1. Noun. (logic) Mathematical logic. ¹
2. Noun. (logic) A particular logical calculus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Formal Logic
Literary usage of Formal logic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"formal logic, then, treats only of these foi-mal qualities cf all products of
thought.1 Tho ... mining formal logic, adopts the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1872)
"This paper contains the following contributions to formal logic :— Statement of
the Problem of Deductive Logic, with a classification of its cases. ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(JMB) The notion of formal logic can only be determined historically. ... In its
modern significance, formal logic presents itself as of three distinct ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(JMB) The notion of formal logic can only be determined historically. ... In its
modern significance, formal logic presents itself as of three distinct ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"formal logic studies concepts,and other mental images, for the purpose of ...
But, while it is true in general t hat in all these tasks formal logic ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"What was true in formal logic tended to be absorbed in the correlational theories.
... formal logic of the extremes! rigour is nowhere to be found more ..."
7. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"It is, therefore, a presupposition of good reasoning, in the formal logic, that
the " term " which is the unit of all its operations, be strictly denned and ..."
8. Problems of Science by Federigo Enriques (1914)
"To recognize a posteriori the possibility of formal logic. 2. To define exactly: "What
is logical," in contradistinction to those processes of thought in ..."
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