Meaning of logic in English

logic

noun [ U ]

/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪk/ us

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logic noun [U] (REASONABLE THINKING)

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a particular way of thinking, especially one that is reasonable and based on good judgment:

I fail to see the logic behind his argument.

If prices go up, wages will go up too - that's just logic.

There's no logic in the decision to reduce staff when orders are the highest they have been for years.

The internal logic of her argument is undeniable.

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I can't fault you on your logic.
Her logic is utterly incontrovertible.
There are irredeemable flaws in the logic of the argument.
There is no logic in his position.
Her arguments lack logic.

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logic noun [U] (FORMAL THINKING)

a formal scientific method of examining or thinking about ideas:

a treatise on formal logic

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(Definition of logic from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

logic | American Dictionary

logic

noun [ U ]

/ˈlɑdʒ·ɪk/

logic noun [U] (REASONABLE THINKING)

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a particular way of thinking, esp. one that is reasonable and based on good judgment:

I fail to see the logic of your argument.

logic noun [U] (FORMAL THINKING)

a formal, scientific method of examining or thinking about ideas

(Definition of logic from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

logic | Business English

logic

noun [ U ]

/ˈlɒdʒɪk/ us

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sensible methods of thinking and making good decisions:

business/economic/commercial logic

the logic of sth Customers support what we're doing, because they see the logic of using renewable resources.

there is logic in/to sth There is clear logic in putting the two businesses together.

If there's any logic to privatization, it's that competition creates more efficiency.

(also programming logic)

actions that a computer performs, such as comparing and matching, that involve simple yes or no choices, rather than more complicated mathematics:

Logic controls how the computer code is executed.

(Definition of logic from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of logic

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Integrative logics are put over the origin myths through which the preservation of society and the production and reproduction of life is made possible.

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Here, cosmology characterises the farmers' world, which is made up of cosmic logics built on the old mythical world.

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The neutrality declaration of 1955 expressed two logics.

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Various temporal orderings give rise to a variety of temporal logics.

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In this section, we will discuss the power and value of description logics from a practical standpoint.

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In our eight years of modelling experience, we were not adversely impacted by the representational restrictions of choosing one of the less expressive description logics.

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Description logics maintain a state of global consistency over a state of knowledge.

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Most non-monotonic logics aim to formalize this phenomenon of 'default reasoning', but they do so in different ways.

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The question is now whether non-classical logics can be used instead.

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Their work also provides a junction between semantics and logics for functional programming languages.

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The final chapter identifies some different overall logics to policy and discusses their significance.

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From this comparison, we see that there are some useful logics for reasoning with inconsistency in structured text.

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The perspective explains as many institutional aspects as possible by coherent systemic dynamics and logics.

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There is a range of proposals for logics (called paraconsistent logics) for reasoning with inconsistency each with pros and cons.

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In practice, and for comparison with other defeasible logics, we can treat the meta-level symbols and as object-level symbols.

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Collocations with logic

logic

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basic logic

The basic logic of this approach is as follows.

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boolean logic

Backjumping for quantified boolean logic satisfiability.

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certain logic

The sparsity of resources within a mobile animal's domain compels a certain logic, one that all energy-consuming autonomous agents must follow.

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Translations of logic

in Chinese (Traditional)

理性思維, 邏輯思維，理性思維, 形式思維…

Meaning of logic in English

logic noun [U] (REASONABLE THINKING)

logic noun [U] (FORMAL THINKING)

logic | American Dictionary

logic noun [U] (REASONABLE THINKING)

logic noun [U] (FORMAL THINKING)

logic | Business English

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