logicallyadv.
/ˈlɒdʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈlɑdʒək(ə)li/ In a logical manner; according to the principles of logic or the laws of sound reasoning. a logically perfect language: a language in which the grammatical structure of sentences would be identical with their logical structure.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [adverb]
logically1620
logice1707
regulatively1854
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adverb]
with main logicc1540
rationally1546
discoursively1588
discursively1611
logically1620
ratiocinatively1656
reasoningly1761
dianoetically1822
reasonedly1836
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > [phrase] > logically perfect language
a logically perfect language1918
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum i. xli. 143 Vpon which consideration Ramus most prudently, and truly logically iudgeth the nature of the argument.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iii. 134 It is most logically and truly concluded.
1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 109 From hence I logically gather, The woman cannot live with either.
1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) iii. §9. 163 His argument, Logically developed, will stand thus.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 46 As one of his parishioners very logically remarked.
1918 B. Russell in Monist 28 520 In a logically perfect language the words in a proposition would correspond one by one with the components of the corresponding fact, with the exception of such words as ‘or’, ‘not’, ‘if’... The language which is set forth in Principia Mathematica..aims at being that sort of a language that, if you add a vocabulary, would be a logically perfect language.
1922 B. Russell in Wittgenstein Tractatus Introd. 7 He is concerned with the conditions which would have to be fulfilled by a logically perfect language.
1939 M. Black in Copi & Beard Ess. Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1966) 97 This view of the character of Wittgenstein's investigation..may have been suggested by Russell's own attempts to construct a logically perfect language.
1953 Mind 62 13 They have even gone so far as to suggest that philosophers should invent a logically perfect language as a substitute for ordinary speech.
1971 A. Flew Introd. Western Philos. xi. 388 One..of the many projects of Leibniz..was to develop a logically perfect language in which the truth or falsity of any proposition would be obvious from the symbols alone.
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