philosophical logic

British  

noun

1. the branch of philosophy that studies the relationship between formal logic and ordinary language, esp the extent to which the former can be held accurately to represent the latter

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Example Sentences

The actor Rebecca Hall brings withering and wry certainty as a college professor working through the philosophical logic and practical logistics of suicide.

From New York Times

When I was 20 a professor of philosophical logic informed me that “philosophy teaches you how to think.”

From New York Times

I was first acquainted with his work in the course on philosophical logic in which the professor informed me that philosophy taught a student how to think.

From New York Times

Such problems would seem to be insuperable for those who believe that moral rules can be rendered absolute, based on moral reasoning alone and disconnected from real life, as if driven simply by a kind of philosophical logic.

From Nature

From Wells’s day to ours, philosophical logic and scientific understanding have seemed to diverge from each other, and both of them from lived experience.

From Washington Post