symbolic logic Meaning of "symbolic logic"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity

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  1. It was a very odd book, a rattlebag of art, mathematics, music, philosophy, symbolic logic, computers, genetics, paradoxes, palindromes and Zen koans among many, many other things.
  2. In high school, he won third prize at the National Science Fair for building a symbolic logic computer.
  3. Seventh-graders plunge into a math program that combines straight computation with sophisticated problems in symbolic logic.
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