logical form

noun

1. the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P

Example Sentences

Not eating seemed a logical form of punishment—it hurt and very quickly it worked.

From The Daily Beast

The argument deserves a more logical form, and I proceed gratuitously to give the author the benefit of a scientific arrangement.

From Project Gutenberg

His was not a critical intellect whose curiosity is not satisfied until the matter in dispute is proved in logical form.

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This is also the process of science itself, as far as the classifying method and intrinsic logical form are concerned.

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It is not till we come to Rousseau that the second form of the contract theory is stated in its purest and most logical form.

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In most cases the necessity of the conclusion is as apparent in the plain speech form as in the artificial logical form.

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