logic
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.