Which preposition to use with logic

of Occurrences 239%

"I can follow the logic of the experiment, of courseso can I follow the logic of a trip to the moon.

in Occurrences 51%

Frenchmen generally have such a wonderful facility of speech, and such a pitiless logic in discussing a question, that the debates were often very interesting.

with Occurrences 12%

In the midst of "the light of common day," with all the persistently common things pressing upon the despairing heart, to hold fast, after what fashion may be possible, the vanishing song that has changed its key, is indeed a victory over the flesh, however childish the forms in which the faith may embody itself, however weak the logic with which it may defend its intrenchments.

to Occurrences 11%

Let us take some concrete living thing, some animal, the commoner the better, and let us see how the application of common sense and common logic to the obvious facts it presents, inevitably leads us into all these branches of zoological science.

for Occurrences 8%

Instances occur in this little essay of yours; and I hope it won't offend your amour propre very much, if an old uncle, who has studied Logic for forty years, makes a few remarks on it.

by Occurrences 5%

Woman, it was expected, would display more than her proverbial lack of logic by embracing with enthusiasm state direction and at the same time remain an exemplar of individualistic performance.

as Occurrences 5%

Consequently, in a work which he significantly entitles De inventione dialectica, he defines logic as the art of speaking in a probable manner concerning any topic which can be treated in a speech.

from Occurrences 4%

But, lo! this child makes his dramatic entrance into the presence of the court, and, under the inspired guidance of defendant's counsel, tells his story of eavesdropping, and when it is done my learned friend has the temerity to ask you to throw away your reason, to dismiss logic from your minds, to trample law under your feet, to scatter the evidence to the four winds of heaven, and to believe what?

like Occurrences 3%

No especial fault was found with the reasoning of the great masters of logic like Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, for it never has been surpassed in acuteness and severity.

at Occurrences 3%

Meanwhile the press of students at Paris, collected into various schools,the chief of which were the theological school of Notre Dame, and the school of logic at Mount Geneviève, where Abélard had lectured,demanded a new organization.

on Occurrences 3%

You may properly say, "Calhoun had logic on his side"; add, however, the words "but his face was to the past," and you spoil the sentence,for face gives a reflex connotation to side, slight perhaps and momentary, but disconcerting.

into Occurrences 3%

If he had more dash and blithesomeness in him, if he could fling a little more of this world's logic into his sermons, if he would periodically blow his own trumpet very audibly, and make a smart "spread" now and then, he would gather force.

without Occurrences 2%

It was a grand consecutive argument, solid logic without sentimentalism.

out Occurrences 1%

He alone denies that mere conceptual logic can tell us what is impossible or possible in the world of being or fact; and he does so for reasons which at the same time that they rule logic out from lordship over the whole of life, establish a vast and definite sphere of influence where its sovereignty is indisputable.

than Occurrences 1%

The view that a State wishing to withdraw from the Union might for good cause do so was the prevalent one till long after the War of 1812, yielding, thereafter, at the North, less to Webster's logic than to the social and economic development just mentioned.

throughout Occurrences 1%

I lay nothing on the great lack of logic throughout the speech, for that would not make it unfit for Hamlet in such mood, while it makes its omission from the play of less consequence to my general argument.]

during Occurrences 1%

He had, as we have seen, attended the class of Logic during his second session; but as he was then devoting his main strength to classics, and as the subject was as yet quite unfamiliar to him, he did not fully give himself up to it nor yield to the influence of the professor, Sir William Hamilton.

against Occurrences 1%

The empiricists use their logic against the absolute, but refuse to use it against finite experience.

about Occurrences 1%

There was a dreadful logic about all she said that brought instant conviction with it.

Which preposition to use with  logic