logical construction
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of logical construction
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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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 • Jul. 22, 2016
We’ve seen this logical construction before: it worked for something known as the "divine right of kings."
From Salon • May 4, 2011
It will soon appear that they do not form a perfectly logical construction and are not part of an a priori system.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
The one space may turn out to be valid as a logical construction, compounded of the several spaces, but there is no good reason to assume its independent metaphysical reality.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand
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 Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand
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