traditional logic

American  

noun

1. formal logic based on syllogistic formulas, especially as developed by Aristotle.

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traditional logic British  

noun

1. the logic of the Late Middle Ages, derived from Aristotelian logic, and concerned esp with the study of syllogism

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Example Sentences

Across the country, billionaires are still spending tens of millions of dollars on homes, despite traditional logic telling them to park their money elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

By bypassing the traditional logic of genetics and evolution, epigenetics can arouse fantasies about warp-speeding heredity: you can make your children taller by straining your neck harder.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

The traditional logic of the schools, on which this notion of rationality is founded, turns out on examination to cover no more than a departmental activity of the human mind.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Evolutionary philosophy, coupled with physics, had built up a sort of closed system with which consciousness could not interfere, but which it could know, and know with all the assurance of a traditional logic.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

The introduction of contradiction into logical concepts as their sine qua non meant indeed a revolutionary departure from traditional logic.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various