Logic compels us to acknowledge them until the time comes when human development enables them to be discovered and affords direct proof of their existence.
Georges Sand, in Consuelo, sets forth the logic of Reincarnation; and G.
Such logic makes one really doubt human reason, and reminds one of the spirit with which the courts of the Holy Inquisition were inspired.
But even yet the opponents of restriction are not willing to submit to the logic of the situation, and instead of admitting the present need of true restriction, come forward with a new substitute.
It had always too much assumption of premises for its foundation and too much logic and finespun theory in its superstructure to be an enduring building.
Quite different is the course of the more strict and dauntless theologians; and the ascendency of logic over pious feeling carries with these the majority of the Bezpopovtsy.
His simple logic exacts from all public worship an absolute perfection which it is impossible to realize.
The vulgar heresy is, in fact, only an overdone ritualism, whose logic lands it in absurdity.
It is almost impossible, on the other hand, for the Bezpopovtsy to stop on the slope down which their logic inexorably drags them.
Tocco states, however, that the abbot of Monte Cassino advised his removal from Monte Cassino, and his being placed at the University of Naples, where he studied grammar and logic under Martin, and natural science under Peter de Hibernia.
And a greater trouble still than these logical mazes, was the introduction of logic into every subject whatever, so far, that is, as this was done.
For myself, it was not logic that carried me on; as well might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather.
For the composer, even for the performer, says my friend, music has a logic of its own, so strong and subtle as to overpower every other consideration.
The laws of logic have a double basis, a metaphysical one on the objective side, and a psychological on the subjective.
Accordingly, if without knowing logic men can think right, and tell right thinking from wrong, it is because, when once the elements of a case are all clearly present to the mind, wrong thinking is psychologically impossible.
Newton first took the law which asserted that the planet moved over equal areas in equal times, and he showed by unimpeachable logic that this at once gave the direction in which the force acted on the planet.
His demonstration possessed such unanswerable logic that universal assent could not be withheld.
The logic of segregated units demanded a black officer corps, but there were never enough black officers to command all the black units.
If the logicof the black leaders impressed General Edwards, the demands themselves had little effect on policy.
The logic of social justice might have led to total integration, but it would not have solved the Air Force's pressing problem of too many unskilled blacks.
Gray resisted at first because "this would mean the complete end of segregation," but unable to deny the logic of Fahy's arguments he agreed to try.
Meshech Little, hesitatingly, as if his logic didn't convince himself.
Since money as well is produced at 1,500 times the efficiency of food, it too functions according to the same logic as industry does.
If the city relies upon another country for its staple food, and this supply is for some reason interrupted, thenlogic dictates it is the people in the cities, and not the farmers, who will be in a pickle.
His paraphrases of Aristotle formed the basis on which Avicenna constructed his system, and his logical treatises produced a permanent effect on the logic of the Latin scholars.
But the chief interest for the history of logic belongs to his doctrine in so far as it bears upon the nature and function of abstract ideas.
The work called The Tendencies of the Philosophers, translated in 1506, with the title Logica et Philosophia Algazelis Arabis, contains neither the logic nor the philosophy of Ghazali.
Still, the logic of Albertus Magnus and succeeding doctors was largely indebted to him for its formulae.
Nihilists and naturalists, who deified logic and science at the expense of faith, were not unknown at Paris in the days of John of Salisbury.
Logic does not come in contact with things, except as they are subject to modification by intellectual forms.
We must trust the fair mindedness of human nature and the logic of the situation to do much for the Germans.
But the idealists were led by Washington, Madison, and Hamilton, and the logic of events came to their aid.
Germany, on the other hand, was increasingly militaristic and the logic of events seemed to indicate that she would at some time in the future be willing to support her commercial and colonial ambition with a formidable appeal to arms.
A judge, according to him, is not simply a logic machine working out intellectual problems, but is the organ of the moral indignation of mankind.
And, for various reasons, partly from natural pugnacity, he was more frequently engaged in exposing sham substitutes for logic than in expounding his own grounds for believing in the probability.
Their course is determined not by purelogic alone, but by the accidents of contemporary politics.
But it is a mere playing fast and loose with logic when you deny the authority of the court to which you appeal as soon as it decides against you.
His politics and morals are not mine at all, though I believe in and admire his logic and his general notions of philosophy.
He gives his view of the intrinsic merits of the logic with little allowance for the historical position of the author.
In fact, Ward's logic would lead to Spinoza, not to the deity of Catholic belief.
The history of Mahomet is the history of a conqueror--and his logic was the logic of the sword.
He useslogic to prove that logic is dangerous, and should not be used.
Now, according to the logic of the orthodox, if he guesses wrong, he should be damned eternally for it.
Hence infidels were more numerous than sectarians; and those infidels (better known as philosophers) nearly succeeded, by the force of superior logic and wisdom, in banishing all systems of religious superstition from the nation.
There is neither sense nor science, logic nor lore, in such conclusions.
No logic and no sophistry can resist this conclusion.
Another pious Christian has become convinced, by "the logic of history," that all war and fighting is wrong, and hence concludes to preach the doctrine of peace.
His powerful logic would surprise, Amaze, and much delight: He proved that dimness of the eyes Was hurtful to the sight.
Mark first the rationale of the thing: Hear logic rivel and levigate the deed.
Come, I venture to give you my word, Never the likes of his logic was heard, Down from Mythology Into Thayology, Troth!
There may be some logic in that, and there's a bare chance that we may come upon him again.
All logic is then thrown to the winds, and there begins a Witches' Sabbath of sound which offends our sight and hearing, especially the latter.
If the logic of big guns had been conclusive, we should have been annihilated.
It certainly requires a violent twist of logic to hold this catalogue of invectives responsible for the transformation of a sluggish and indolent bourgeoisie into a "Volk in Waffen" unified by an indomitable and truculent rapacity.
The weakness of his philosophy before the forum of Logichas been referred to before.
Nietzsche's unconfessed and cautious imitators, who call themselves pragmatists, are not bold enough to follow their own logic from the cognitive sphere to the moral.
Why this emphatic protestation on their part that there may exist a something which, as far as the needs of their science go, is superfluous, and as far as the logic of their science goes is impossible?
And this mystery it is that our modern physicists seize on, and try to hide and lose in the shadow of it a conclusion which they admit that, in any other case, a rigorous logic would force on them.
But the Protestant logic will by no means leave us here.
Observation proves them to interact; but in passing from one to the other, we meet a blank which the logic of deduction is unable to fill.
It belongs to a region of mystery into which neither logic nor experiment will ever suffice to carry us; and whose secrets are beyond the reach of any intellectual aeronaut.
The difference between these men, however, will seem almost unanimity, if we compare them with others who, so far as logic and authority go, have just as good a claim on our attention.
There can, therefore, be no conflict between the methods of Logic and those of Nature.
Logic has been defined as "The Science of Thought;" it should be termed "The Science of Thinking.
There is therefore neither conflict nor variation between the method of Logic and the method of Nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "logic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
