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Logically

In a logical manner as to argue logically...


modal logic

A system of logic which studies how to combine propositions which include the concepts of necessity possibility and obligation...


Logicalness

The quality of being logical...


Logicality

Logicalness...


Genus

Genus, in logic, connotes an idea or quality which is universal or common to a whole class, all the members of which are differentiated by that quality or idea from any other class; e.g., incorporeal hereditament is genus with respect to a rent, which is species, Woolley's Introd. To Logic, 45; Mill's Log., Bk. I. c. 7. See EJUSDEM GENERIS.A general class comprising several species or division, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 695....


Subject

Subject (logic), that concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition, Mill's Logic. See PREDICATE.1. One who owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by that sovereign's laws. 2. The matter of concern over which something is created, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1438...


Converse

Converse (in logic), the transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition. The proposition 'X is Y,' converted, becomes 'Y is X.' 'By far the most fertile source of purely syllogistic fallacies is the tendency of the mind to convert universal affirmatives without limitation.'-Bain's Logic, Deduction, p. 114....


Logical

Of or pertaining to logic used in logic as logical subtilties...


Irrationality

Irrationality, mean what can by now be succinctly referred to Wednesbury unreasonableness, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL).Means what can be now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, State of NCT of Delhi v. Sanjeev, (2005) 5 SCC 181.Means what can by now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL...


Illogical

Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning as an illogical disputant contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning as an illogical inference...


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