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logical(dictionary)
logical positivism(encyclopedia)
Logical View Of Documents(law)

logical(2) (iou)



logical adjective & noun. LME.
[medieval Latin logicalis, from late Latin logica LOGIC: see -ICAL.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to logic or formal argument. LME.
b. Computing & Electronics. Of or pertaining to the logic of computers and similar equipment or the conceptual arrangement of software or data; designed to carry out processes which can be expressed in terms of symbolic logic. M20.
Not contravening the principles of logic; correctly reasoned. L16.
Of a person: capable of reasoning correctly. M17.
Edinburgh Review The strong and logical-minded Manning.
Characterized by reason; rational, reasonable. rare. M17.
That follows as a reasonable inference or natural consequence; deducible or defensible on the ground of consistency; reasonably believed or done. M19.
M. M. Atwater Harold was the logical suspectplenty of motive, the opportunity, it all checked. G. Brown It would scarcely seem logical to have a Deputy Leader not in the Government.
Special collocations: logical addition the formation of a logical sum. logical atom: see ATOM noun 7. logical atomism: see ATOMISM 2. logical empiricism = logical positivism below. logical empiricist = logical positivist below. logical form the form, as distinct from the content, of a proposition, argument, etc., which can be expressed in logical terms. logical grammar the rules of word-use in a proposition on which its logical, as distinct from its purely grammatical, sense or meaning is held to depend. logical implication implication which is based on the formal and not the material relationship between propositions. logical multiplication the formation of a logical product. logical necessity the compulsion to believe that of which the opposite is inconceivable. logical operation an operation of the kind used in logic (such as conjunction or negation); any analogous (non-arithmetical) operation on numbers, esp. binary numbers, in which each digit of the result depends on only one digit in each operand. logical paradox: see PARADOX noun 2c. logical positivism a form of positivism regarding all valid philosophical problems as solvable by logical analysis. logical positivist an adherent or student of logical positivism. logical product the conjunction of two or more propositions; the intersection of two or more sets; (written pq, p?q, p.q, pq, p and q). logical structure the formal framework of logical rules to which a theory, language, proposition, etc., must conform in order to have truth-value. logical subject the subject which is implied in a sentence or proposition, or which exists in the deep structure of a sentence. logical sum the disjunction of two or more propositions; the union of two or more sets; (written pq, pq, p or q, p + q). logical syntax the system of sentence-construction in a proposition on which its logical, as distinct from its purely grammatical sense or meaning, is held to depend. logical truth that which is true in logical or formal terms regardless of material meaning. logical word a word of the type which gives logical context or form to a proposition but which, by itself, is non-representational and without meaning.
b. noun. In pl. The subjects studied in a course of instruction in logic. obsolete exc. Hist. M16.
logi'cality noun the quality of being logical M19.
logicalize verb trans. make logical M19.
logically adverb in a logical manner, according to the principles of logic or the laws of sound reasoning;
logically perfect language, a language in which the grammatical structure of sentences would be identical with their logical structure: L16.
logicalness noun (rare) logicality E18.