noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Boolean logic
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The program searches for information using Boolean logic .
fuzzy logic
logic dictates sth
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Logic dictates that this must be the right answer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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And indeed, linking these three proposals did have a certain logic .
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Theology has sometimes forced a certain logic upon the thought of Irenaeus which plays it false.
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It was of course an argument that carried with it a certain invincible logic .
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Putting police in the marijuana distribution business carries a certain odd logic , to some people.
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But it has a certain logic .
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There is, to be sure, a certain logic in the view which advocates the relinquishment of doomed creatures to eternity.
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This price had a certain logic , being the amount of surety which each official immigrant into the country had to post.
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The Presocratics were rational, certainly, and employed a certain non-formal logic .
circular
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The irony in all this is the circular logic of what appears to be the new strategic competition.
commercial
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It needs an industrial strategy founded on commercial logic rather than shortsighted bureaucratic principles.
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Take away or subsidise all nuclear power stations and you lose the commercial logic of the privatisation plans.
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This is a precious text, its publishers and authors are saying, that gloriously defies vulgar commercial logic .
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But in recent years commercial logic has forced them closer together, and the romance started up again.
economic
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These rates are clearly a trade-off between economic logic and political expediency.
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When it comes to factor price equalization, economic logic is buttressed by timing.
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Nicholas Garnham has argued that this provision of a wide-ranging repertoire also has an economic logic .
fuzzy
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These support problem solving techniques such as rule-based systems, genetic optimisation and fuzzy logic .
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Research on a new microcontroller with built-in fuzzy logic co-processors is also under development.
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Somehow this fuzzy logic had stayed on.
industrial
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He said the offer was based on industrial logic .
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So-called industrial logic has, for example, been used to justify the acquisition of a customer or a supplier.
inexorable
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The inexorable logic does not, however, establish that the result is morally or socially desirable.
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There was no inexorable train of logic which led from that day to the Holocaust.
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Up to the point of overload and pressure, you might say that the inexorable logic of the Hay Fever Theory does hold.
internal
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Scientists have no need to explore the internal logic of the consciousness of matter simply because it does not exist.
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Capitalism desperately needs what its own internal logic says it does not have to do.
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Often it is the internal logic of a process that is the real clue to understanding it.
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It has to have an on board brain operating entirely by internal logic and guidance without much communication from Earth.
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They must interpret the internal logic which directs the actions of the actor.
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In other words the internal logic of the design may ignore our priorities.
simple
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You don't need a complex system for that - just time and some simple logic to begin with.
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You need only set up elegantly simple categories and logic will whisk you to whatever conclusion you have in mind.
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By the application of simple logic , anyone can work out that that means that he does not like private residential care.
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There was a simple logic to the run, which we discovered on our return to barracks.
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This argument had a simple logic .
■ VERB
accept
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But if both players accept this logic and defect, they end up worse off than if they had co-operated.
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Sternglass did not accept the logic that lay behind the word enough.
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To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system.
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It is an accepted fact of scientific logic that you can never prove something true.
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In the mid-1930s, however, most absolute pacifists were not yet ready to accept the apolitical logic of their beliefs.
apply
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The positivist approach to human behaviour applies a similar logic .
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The child can think logically but can not apply logic to hypothetical and abstract problems.
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It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here.
based
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He said the offer was based on industrial logic .
defy
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For the song of the suffering servant helps unlock the mystery that defies logic .
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The Raiders could make a great second-half run, but that would defy logic .
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With all these artists' patches there are some sounds which are great and others which defy logic .
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It is an industry that, recently anyway, almost defies logic .
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This is a precious text, its publishers and authors are saying, that gloriously defies vulgar commercial logic .
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The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
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When, defying logic , the Burt Bacharach horns come in, it's the pop moment at its life-affirming best.
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The afternoon stretches on and on, defying the logic of watch time.
follow
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Viewers are excused the demanding task of following the logic of a Horizon exposition; the important thing is to marvel.
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The logical arrangement of subject headings in this section of the research proposal tends to follow the logic of the research process.
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Go or stay? Follow my logic or my nose.
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This chapter begins to follow the logic of these arguments into the heart of human behavior.
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Secondly, the social consequences of the technology would be inevitable, following directly from the logic of the change.
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We ought to follow that logic in presidential elections.
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In fact they follow the logic feminists identify as sexist because it assumes women's subordinate position.
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Close attention and hard work would be needed to follow the dubious logic of such explanations.
understand
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I could never understand the logic of taking the doe rabbits away to warren systems.
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But if I understand the logic of supplementarity correctly, its moral implications are quite different.
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I have only just understood that this logic was so.
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Conventional programs embed the expertise in the instructions, making it very difficult to understand the logic of the problem.
use
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It is prized in cultures which use second-order systems of logic and dialectic to reason about the world.
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The most emotional thinkers are those who use emotion to drive logic .
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The program being used is KWIRS2 which allows the pupils to search for information using Boolean logic .
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It will operate at 3.3V and use built-in power-management logic to reduce the heat.
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For example, using the same logic and assuming a constant required rate of return, may be defined as follows:.
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To quote Lieberson once again: imagine an inquiry, using the logic of social research, into why objects fall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
circular argument/logic/reasoning
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Clearly the more elaborate the dress, the more dress-fasteners required, although there is here the danger of a circular argument.
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Failure to recognize this leads to circular arguments.
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Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as: Why is the relationship linear?
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The Court refused to allow itself to be caught in a circular argument as to which State needed to waive immunity first.
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The irony in all this is the circular logic of what appears to be the new strategic competition.
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This appears to be a circular argument, typical of closed-belief systems.
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We start by talking about a problem of circular reasoning to motivate the diagram.
defy logic/the odds etc
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In the event, the cyclist defied the odds and survived.
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That Jaime Guerrero is alive to attend the dinner probably defies the odds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I couldn't see the logic behind the decision to close the school.
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Sophie questioned the logic of his arguments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, brain circuits for learning math, logic and music are thought to develop between birth and age 4.
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I am good at quizzes that involve logic 41.
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I had a feeling that his logic would not bear close scrutiny but was too numb to argue with the ancient greenkeeper.
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In the end, minimizing fails because it violates the principles of behavioral logic .
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Such Hegelian logic put a new interpretation to history.
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The kind of reasoning I found in logic was very foreign.
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There was most definitely a logic to the Corinthians' positions.