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Logic

Meaning in philosophy, with examples

/ˈlɒdʒɪk/nounCore term

In philosophy, logic means: The study of correct reasoning, especially of which conclusions follow from which premises and why.

In Turkish: mantık

How it is used

Used for the academic subject (formal logic, a logic course) and for the reasoning inside a text (the logic of her argument). Formal logic works with symbols; informal logic studies everyday arguments and fallacies.

Example sentences

  1. First-year students take an introductory logic course in their first semester.

  2. Aristotle's logic shaped Western thought for roughly two thousand years.

Common collocations

  • formal logic
  • informal logic
  • propositional logic
  • modal logic
  • follow the logic
  • argumentA set of statements in which some of them, the premises, are offered as reasons for accepting another one, the conclusion.
  • validDescribes an argument whose form guarantees that if all the premises are true, the conclusion must be true as well.
  • deductionReasoning in which the conclusion is meant to follow necessarily from the premises, so that true premises guarantee a true conclusion.
  • fallacyA common error in reasoning that makes an argument look convincing even though its premises do not properly support its conclusion.

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