(uncountable) A method of humanthought that involves thinking in alinear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including thescientific method.
2001, Mark Sainsbury,Logical Forms - An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, page 9:
An old tradition has it that there are two branches oflogic: deductivelogic and inductivelogic. More recently, the differences between these disciplines have become so marked that most people nowadays use "logic" to mean deductivelogic, reserving terms like "confirmation theory" for at least some of what used to be called inductivelogic. I shall follow the more recent practice, and shall construe "philosophy oflogic" as "philosophy of deductivelogic".
2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva,Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study[1],Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page151:
This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting thelogic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.
2020, Dan Andriacco,Murderers' Row:
"It's not a matter of opinion that she wasn't anywhere near her husband when somebody shoved a needle in him," I said, miffed. "I would have seen her." "By thatlogic, nobody did it because you didn't see anybody."
Fred is designing thelogic for the new controller.
(countable,sociology) Asystem of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
2023, Alba Rosa Boer Cueva et al.,Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda:
"We identify four logics of empowerment (political, economic, social, and security) and apply these to understanding empowerment’s historical and contemporary meanings-in-use."
