10 sentences with 'logic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word logic and other words derived from it.
• « This had this logic: according to their beliefs, the pores connected to the viscera were opened to receive the moisture from the brain and this made the bad humours disappear. »
• « In the course of the 11th century, translations of Aristotle's work on formal philosophical logic re-emerged in Europe. Most had been preserved in the Arab world, where Aristotle was considered the most important pre-Islamic philosopher and was studied with great rigour by Arab scholars. »
• « Enterprising scholars - many of them Jewish philosophers living in North Africa and Spain - translated Aristotle's work on logic from Arabic into Latin. Later, Greeks from Byzantium came to Europe with the Greek originals and also translated them into Latin. »
• « The importance of this rediscovery of Aristotle is that his work on logic offered a formal system for evaluating complicated bodies of work such as the Christian Bible itself. »
• « At the same time, while the idea of legal equality for Jews was virtually unthinkable before the Revolution, the logic of equality seemed to gain its own momentum in the course of 1789 - 1791, with French Jews gaining their rights as French citizens in September 1791. »
• « Once again, however, the logic of equality worked inexorably to disrupt centuries-old political hierarchies. »
• « In the rhetoric of the Assembly, however, women were missing from the emancipatory logic. There were no debates in the Assembly concerning women's rights, in stark contrast to the lengthy arguments about religious minorities and the black inhabitants of the colonies. »
• « It is generally accepted that one of the cerebral hemispheres is always dominant - usually the left one - and controls language, numbers, sequences, logic and analysis, while the other part is in charge of imagination, fantasy, music, colour and the idea of volume, spatial location and dimensions. However, this division is not arbitrary, but in many of our actions - conscious or unconscious - both hemispheres are involved. »
• « The logic behind the embargo was that cutting off all trade would hurt Britain and France so much that the embargoes at sea would end. However, while the embargo had some effect on the British economy, it was US trade that suffered the most. »
• « In September 1836, military hero Sam Houston was elected president of Texas and, following the relentless logic of American expansion, Texans voted for annexation to the United States. »