philosophical logic

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noun

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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Their logic: the sea-creature would come alive and drink up any remaining alcohol.
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Dear Thief is worthy of the abused critical adjectives philosophical, atmospheric, and masterful.
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But what about the philosophical beliefs of thousands of incarcerated pregnant women (PDF) across the United States?
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The birds will seek us out and they will use no logic we know.
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Kim Novak's heavy legs were concealed and all logic left on the cutting room floor.
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Martyrdoms do not occur for ethical generalizations, much less for philosophical affirmations.
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It struck me that he was uncommonly philosophical about it, so I merely grunted and went on with my dinner.
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It relates to ancient philosophical ideas concerning the spiritual and the material worlds.
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This rather is, I should deem, the more perilous, and a plainer and better object for philosophical attack.
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He was one of the lords of session in Scotland, and a philosophical writer of considerable learning, but of peculiar notions.
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