formal logic

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Their method, which is based on the formal logic used by mathematicians and philosophers, captures the choices faced by a hacker who has access to the mobile phone and the PIN.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024

Pinker’s main focus is the sort of conscious, sequential reasoning that can track the steps in a geometric proof or an argument in formal logic.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

But Snohetta’s initial scheme undid the formal logic of how the mass of the granite facade is poised on its monumental base of big-footed columns.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2018

But Malick isn’t an abstract filmmaker, and Voyage doesn’t have the rhythmic cohesion of a work assembled accordingly to purely formal logic.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2016

In formal logic and in mathematics, proof is something absolute.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith