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Mathematical logic

noun

Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity. Synonyms: formal logic, symbolic logic.

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... and oscillation. The especially logical problem was often touched upon in the Middle Ages, by the nominalists, realists, and conceptualists, in their disputes. With Galileo and with Bacon, the natural sciences gave an honourable place to induction. Vico combated formalist and mathematical logic in favour of inventive methods. Kant called attention to a priori syntheses. The absolute idealists despised the Aristotelian logic. The followers of Herbart, bound to Aristotle, on the other hand, set in relief those judgments which they called narrative, which are of ...

— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce

... is so. One can see the whole affair from that angle ... and I am beginning to believe that this is how one ought to see it. But, if we admit that this madwoman has the sort of mathematical logic which governed the murders of the six victims, I see no connection between the victims themselves. She struck at random. Why this ...

— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

Words linked to "Mathematical logic" : propositional logic, Boolean logic, propositional calculus, predicate calculus, symbolic logic, modal logic, system of logic, logical system, fuzzy logic, logic, Boolean algebra, functional calculus