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coherent | logic |

As adjectives the difference between coherent and logic

is that coherent is coherent while logic is logical.

coherent

English

(Coherence)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
  • * 1997 , Bernard J. Baars, "Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy", in Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century (ed. Robert L. Solso), MIT Press (1999), ISBN 9780262193856, page 7:
    • A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
  • * 2005 , Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths , Windgather (2005), ISBN 9781905119028, page 15:
    • Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.
  • * 2011 , Claire Klein Datnow, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa , Media Mint Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780984277834, page 124:
    • She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.
  • Orderly, logical and consistent.
  • * 2007 , Kenneth R. Hammond, Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time , Oxford University Press (2007), ISBN 9780195311747, page 108:
    • Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.
  • * 2009 , John Polkinghorne & Nicholas Beale, Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief , Westminster John Knox Press (2009), ISBN 9780664233518, page 23:
    • It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.
  • * 2009 , Carrie Winstanley, Writing a Dissertation For Dummies , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2009), ISBN 9780470742709, unnumbered page:
    • Presenting a balanced and coherent argument is an important aspect of a nonempirical dissertation and you need to spend some time considering the most useful route through your argument.
  • Aesthetically ordered.
  • Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  • (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  • (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  • (math, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.

    • Antonyms

    * incoherent

    Related terms

    * adherent * coherence * cohere * cohesive * inherent

    logic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * logick (archaic)

    Adjective

  • logical

    • Noun

    (wikipedia logic)
  • (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
  • (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
  • * 2001 , Mark Sainsbury, Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition , Blackwell Publishing, p. 9
    • An old tradition has it that there are two branches of logic: deductive logic and inductive logic. More recently, the differences between these disciplines have become so marked that most people nowadays use "logic" to mean deductive logic, reserving terms like "confirmation theory" for at least some of what used to be called inductive logic. I shall follow the more recent practice, and shall construe "philosophy of logic" as "philosophy of deductive logic".
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of proof of statements.
  • (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
  • (uncountable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
    • It's hard to work out his system of logic .
  • (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
    • Fred is designing the logic for the new controller.

    Synonyms

    * formal logic, modern logic * formal system * (philosophy ): predicate logic

    Related terms

    * logician * logical

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * Aristotelian logic * Boolean logic * chop logic * combinational logic * computability logic * deontic logic * diode logic * diode-transistor logic * first-order logic * formal logic * fuzzy logic * intensional logic * interpretability logic * intuitionistic logic * logic chopper * many-sorted logic * material logic * mathematical logic * modal logic * modern logic * multi-valued logic * negative logic * non-Aristotelian logic * philosophical logic * positive logic * predicate logic * propositional logic * provability logic * resistor-transistor logic * sequential logic * symbolic logic * traditional logic * transistor-transistor logic

    Verb

  • (pejorative) To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
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  • To apply logical reasoning to.
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  • To overcome by logical argument.
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