Logic vs Literal - What's the difference?
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logical
(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
(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.
(uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
(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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Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
* Hooker
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
* Johnson
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_%28logic%29]
As adjectives the difference between logic and literal
is that logic is logical while literal is exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.As a noun literal is
(programming) a value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.logic
English
Alternative forms
* logick (archaic)Adjective
Noun
(wikipedia logic)- 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".
- It's hard to work out his system of logic .
- Fred is designing the logic for the new controller.
Synonyms
* formal logic, modern logic * formal system * (philosophy ): predicate logicDerived 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 logicVerb
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Alternative forms
* litteral (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
- a middle course between the rigour of literal translation and the liberty of paraphrasts
- A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
- a literal equation
- The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.