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lo jik

  • n  the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
  • n  reasoned and reasonable judgment
    it made a certain kind of logic
  • n  the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
    economic logic requires it
    by the logic of war
  • n  the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
  • n  a system of reasoning

  • What is fuzzy logic? The original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that .
  • If all Alan Turing had done was answer, in the negative, a vexing question in the arcane realm of mathematical logic, few nonspecialists today would have any reason to remember him .
  • He began by trying to reduce all mathematics to logic and ended by finding most metaphysics to be nonsense.
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  • Barack Obama in ABC News
    The failed policies of John McCain would be the pig,Obama says. "I mean, just following the logic of this illogical situation."
  • Sergey Lavrov in USA Today
    One can forget about any talk about Georgia's territorial integrity because, I believe, it is impossible to persuade South Ossetia and Abkhazia to agree with the logic that they can be forced back into the Georgian state,Russian Foreign...
  • Will Smith in Prince George Citizen
    The Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper, recently quoted Smith as saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what...

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