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 • Feb. 28, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

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

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2015

And emerging from the moment's desperation comes some logical form of rescue: a tow-truck driver, a voice from the radio tower, a lifeguard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a fallacy could not indeed be even exhibited in strict logical form, which would preclude even the attempt at it, since it has two middleterms in sound as well as sense.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart