formal logic

formal logic

n. The study of the properties of deductive reasoning over propositions by abstraction and analysis of the form, rather than the content, of the propositions.

formal logic

n 1. (Logic) Also called: symbolic logic the study of systems of deductive argument in which symbols are used to represent precisely defined categories of expressions. Compare philosophical logic 2. (Logic) a specific formal system that can be interpreted as representing a fragment of natural argument

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formal logic - any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validitymathematical logic, symbolic logiclogical system, system of logic, logic - a system of reasoningBoolean algebra, Boolean logic - a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computerspropositional calculus, propositional logic - a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate themfunctional calculus, predicate calculus - a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions)modal logic - a system of logic whose formal properties resemble certain moral and epistemological conceptsfuzzy logic - a form of mathematical logic in which truth can assume a continuum of values between 0 and 1