logic

In a sentence

Six example sentences with logic, each labelled with its topic.

• A first course in logic teaches students to test whether a conclusion truly follows from the premises they accepted.

  Philosophy

• Compilers apply formal logic to prove that a loop cannot run past the end of an array.

  Technology

• The puzzle rewards logic rather than reflexes: three switches, one rule, and only one arrangement that opens the gate.

  Gaming

• Medieval universities put logic at the heart of the curriculum, and students disputed syllogisms for years before studying law.

  History

• Lewis Carroll wrote a playful textbook of logic, and its syllogisms about babies and crocodiles still appear in puzzle books.

  Literature

• Psychologists borrow puzzles from formal logic to show how far everyday reasoning drifts from valid inference.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains logic. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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