1464 examples of logical in sentences
Side by side with the executive officers who will reorganize the Christian forces, there will stand great creed-makers, giant theologians, firm, logical, scientific, and convincing, who, out of the vast array of new facts brought forth by modern science, will produce new creeds, a new catechism, a new dogmatic series.
These steps, it will he observed, indicate, not precisely 'breaks in the sense' (as Haberl incorrectly says) but rather the logical divisions of the sentence, which is not quite the same thing" (Father Lucas, S.J., Holy Mass, chap, vi.).
" "It was never intended to be a permanent thing, anyhow," continued Mr. Merrick; "yet I must express my admiration for the courage and talent my nieces have displayed in forcing a temporary success where failure was the logical conclusion.
As a debater in the House of Commons, his speeches were logical and argumentative: if they did not often abound in the graces of metaphor, or sparkle with the brilliancy of wit, they were always animated, elegant, and classical.
Slowly my mind seemed to free itself from a hundred illusions, and to move along more logical paths.
It's a logical conclusion, for I've lived in the West and know the prairie roads are smoother than boulevards.
The Irishman, however, was never very logical or clear-headed; and three gills of rum had, by no means, helped to purify his brain.
He united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing; for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment.
The Indian systems do not disdain logical discussions, or a search after the principles of which the universe is composed; and hence we find great refinements in sophistry, and a wonderful subtilty of logical discussion, though these are directed to unattainable ends,to the connection of good with evil, and the union of the Supreme with Nature.
The Indian systems do not disdain logical discussions, or a search after the principles of which the universe is composed; and hence we find great refinements in sophistry, and a wonderful subtilty of logical discussion, though these are directed to unattainable ends,to the connection of good with evil, and the union of the Supreme with Nature.
The chief claim of Thales to a lofty rank among sages, however, is that he was the first who attempted a logical solution of material phenomena, without resorting to mythical representations.
Their ideas were one-sided, and when pushed out to their extreme logical sequence were antagonistic to one another; which had a tendency to produce doubt and scepticism.
They were full of logical tricks, and contrived to throw ridicule upon profound inquiries.
Thus, by this system of cross-examination, he showed the intimate connection between the dialectic method and the logical distribution of particulars into species and genera.
Bacon was disgusted with ineffective logical speculations, and Socrates with ineffective physical researches.
Thus Aristotle made speculation subordinate to logical distinctions, and his system, when carried out by the mediaeval Schoolmen, led to a spirit of useless quibbling.
His merit consisted in great logical precision and scrupulous exactness in the employment of terms.
Nor was it by dry dialectics that he refuted these heresies, although the most logical and acute of men, but by his profound insight into the cardinal principles of Christianity, which he discoursed upon with the most extraordinary affluence of thought and language, disdaining all sophistries and speculations.
The Bourbons, indeed, reigned without grants from the people or the nobility, and what was the logical result?a French Revolution!
But the Church shrank from such a conclusion, although logical, and included in the benefits of the atonement only the believing portion of mankind.
The discrepancy between the logical deductions and consciousness, and I may add Scripture, lies in assuming that human guilt is infinitely great.
He was not so learned as Erasmus, nor so logical as Calvin, nor so scholarly as Melancthon, nor so broad as Cranmer.
His name was Peter Abélard, on the whole the most brilliant and interesting man whom the Middle Ages produced,not so profound as Anselm, or learned as Peter Lombard, or logical as Thomas Aquinas, or acute as Albertus Magnus, but the most eloquent expounder of philosophy of whom I have read.
He early devoted himself to dialectics, to all the arts of intellectual gladiatorship, to all the sports of logical tournaments which were held in such value by the awakened spirits of the new civilization.
"Ye-es!" assented Kathleen with some reservations in her tone, for she was more judicial and logical than her sister.
