单词 | logical machine |
释义 | > as lemmaslogical machine logical machine n. an apparatus designed to facilitate logical calculations; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1870 W. S. Jevons in Proc. Royal Soc. 18 167 To explain the nature of the logical machine alluded to, it may be pointed out that the third of the fundamental Laws of Thought allows us to affirm of any object one or the other of two contradictory attributes. 1883 F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic 344 We shall discuss the Indirect Method, and with it the claims of the Logical Machine. 1943 Mind 52 319 He is thus stymied at the outset, and being neither a logical machine nor an esthetic idiot he is likely to feel uncomfortable about it. < as lemmas |
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