logic
/ˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪk/ noun B1- A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method. · apply logic· understand logic
- The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person. · It's hard to work out his system of logic.
- The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit. · Fred is designing the logic for the new controller.
- A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
Plural logics
From the library
“Do not speak thus, for your reply evinces neither logic nor philosophy; everything is relative, my dear young friend, from the king who stands in the way of his successor, to the employee who keeps his rival out of a place.
That will be a new thing in logic, and a feat in story-telling somewhat older than the great wall of China.
“But,” said Danglars, whose weak mind was at first quite overwhelmed with the weight of this pitiless logic, marking evident premeditation and force of will, “what is your reason for this refusal, Eugénie?
Then, all at once, he replied, with that logic which the reader has, doubtless, remarked in him, “There is nothing astonishing in seeing a gendarme at an inn; instead of being astonished, let me dress myself.” And the youth dressed himself with a facility his valet de chambre had failed to rob him of during the two months of fashionable life he had led in Paris.
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