philosophical logic

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

Example Sentences

It is forms, in this sense, that are the proper object of philosophical logic.

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Of its beginnings, which are the only part of it that can properly be called philosophical logic, I shall speak shortly.

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The second result still more directly concerns a philosophical logic.

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Philosophical logic stands in the same relation to other sciences.

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