symbolic logic
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He argued that the structural rigidity and rule-based grammar of Sanskrit offered a powerful natural analog to the symbolic logic of computer languages.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
The fields of science, logic, and mathematics include research into contemporary symbolic logic as well as interdisciplinary work in the philosophy of mathematics and the sciences; these areas are closely related to metaphysics and epistemology.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Wilkes happened to have some intellectual preparation: As a philosophy major, she had studied symbolic logic, which can involve creating arguments and inferences by stringing together and/or statements in a way that resembles coding.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2019
Peano’s axioms can be expressed in the notation of symbolic logic, from which all basic arithmetical operations, such as multiplication, can be derived.
From Nature • Jul. 2, 2014
Danny was reading Freud, and I was doing symbolic logic.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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