apply logic
Example Sentences
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In 2010, while at Oxford, she met William Crouch, who was helping to build the effective altruism movement, which tries to apply logic and reason to find the best way to help others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
The way people in cults think — you can’t apply logic to it and it’s going to make you laugh.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024
While on sabbatical in Germany, he encountered the new fashion of biblical criticism, which sought to apply logic and reason to scripture.
From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2022
To do so, however, you need to apply logic to your interpretation of their behaviors and find out where they would not make sense if a person was being truthful.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2021
He could have demolished all General Booth's pet theories by an appeal to the simplest logical processes, but that it seemed absurd to apply logic to so crude a scheme.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
