(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…
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Line of reasoning
a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of reasoning"
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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured, we can i…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.the quality of being valid and rigorous
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllo…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement ‘he is brave and he is not brave’ is a contradiction"
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement ‘he is brave and he is not brave’ is a contradiction"
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Logic and argument.something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
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The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of te…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a pe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba"; "tra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: course, reasoning, aimed, demonstrating, truth.the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…
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