symbolic logic

symbolic logic

n.

A treatment of formal logic in which a system of symbols is used to represent quantities and relationships. Also called mathematical logic.

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symbolic logic

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(Philosophy / Logic) another term for formal logic

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symbolic logic - any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity formal logic, mathematical logic logical system, system of logic, logic - a system of reasoning Boolean algebra, Boolean logic - a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers propositional calculus, propositional logic - a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them functional 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 concepts fuzzy logic - a form of mathematical logic in which truth can assume a continuum of values between 0 and 1