logical construction
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of logical construction
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It’s an awkward logical construction that equates his detractors being wrong with their being corrupt – which, of course, isn’t the exact same thing.
From US News
But the Court reasoned that ignoring the text in favor of a more logical construction could produce a law that wouldn’t have passed Congress.
From Forbes
One recruitment agent who screens Italian applicants told The Daily Beast that they look for people who are proficient in gaming and hacking and even those who played obsessively with Lego blocks as a child which shows a certain penchant for logical construction and deconstruction.
From Newsweek
It will soon appear that they do not form a perfectly logical construction and are not part of an a priori system.
From Project Gutenberg
For reasons explained in Lecture IV., the persistence of things through time is to be regarded as the formal result of a logical construction, not as necessarily implying any actual persistence.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
