Definition of Logic

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Definition of Logic

Logic

The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.

A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.

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Logic Quotations

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Lewis Carroll

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave Barry

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

Logic Translations

logic in Dutch is logica
logic in French is logique
logic in German is Logik, logische, Logik
logic in Italian is logica
logic in Norwegian is logikk
logic in Swedish is logik

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