logical form

British  

noun

1. the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P

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Example Sentences

A decision is interpretable if it can be presented in a logical form and if it is possible to grasp how changes in inputs affect outcomes.

From Slate

One idea didn’t need logical form or narrative to follow the other.

From Los Angeles Times

At Deep Mind in London, scientists are developing a new sort of artificial neural network that can learn to form relationships in raw input data and represent it in logical form as a decision tree, as in a symbolic machine.

From Scientific American

Language and the world share logical form, which is also the form of reality.

From Slate

Price and short life cycle aside, there's a utility problem: Although Apple Watch can handle a variety of tasks including sending and receiving texts and has a growing ecosystem of apps, it largely does everything that your phone can do, but on a much smaller screen and in some cases, a less logical form factor.

From Los Angeles Times