logic

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/ˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪk/

noun

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A clear system of reasoning based on facts and rules.
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A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.

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The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.

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This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.
2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151
"It's not a matter of opinion that she wasn't anywhere near her husband when somebody shoved a needle in him," I said, miffed. "I would have seen her." "By that logic, nobody did it because you didn't see anybody."
2020, Dan Andriacco, Murderers' Row
"We identify four logics of empowerment (political, economic, social, and security) and apply these to understanding empowerment’s historical and contemporary meanings-in-use."
2023, Alba Rosa Boer Cueva et al., Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda
He logicked that one out. He snuck into Haiti and scored herbs to rev him and calm him.
2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, page 90
If things had gone as usual this night, if Kit had not logicked her into agreement, then she probably would have opened the door tonight.
2010, Jade Lee, Wicked Surrender

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From Middle English logike, from Old French and Latin logicus, from Ancient Greek λογῐκός (logĭkós). Displaced native Old English flitcræftlīċ.