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
Eventually, I stopped wondering, stopped trying to apply logic.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022
To apply logic here is as fatuous as to disregard it in cases where it is applicable.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel