Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful " topsy-turvy " worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion — fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.

Philosopher George Bernard Shaw initially had flirtations with individualist anarchism before coming to the conclusion that it was " the negation of socialism, and is, in fact, unsocialism carried as near to its logical conclusion as any sane man dare carry it.

By supplying the parallel structure, the original conclusion becomes logical.

However, by exposing the unparallel structure in the original syllogism, the reader is now able to supply the logical conclusion:

logical conclusion through institutionalisation of Federal Democratic Republic and drafting of a new

According to Standish, " Anyone who is acquainted with the facts and has any amount of logical reasoning can not avoid the conclusion that neither Cook, nor Peary, nor Byrd reached the North Pole ; and they all knew it.

Taking the impartial element in ethical reasoning to its logical conclusion means, first, accepting that we ought to have equal concern for all human beings.

The logical conclusion is given least importance over the theatrical performers of the wrestlers and the referee.

" If Psycho began an exploration of a new sense of absurdity in contemporary life, of the collapse of causality and the diseased underbelly of American Gothic ", he writes, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " carries this exploration to a logical conclusion, addressing many of the issues of Hitchcock's film while refusing comforting closure ".

According to official Residents lore, there was internal turmoil which resulted in a large, " embarrassing " food fight ; they decided to resolve this tension in 1974 by recording what would later become Not Available – representative of N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity taken to its logical conclusion.

The futurist and cold war strategist Herman Kahn ( 1922 – 1982 ) believed that although MAD was useful as a metaphor, when pushed to its logical conclusion it became absurd.

* Belief bias is when one's evaluation of the logical strength of an argument is biased by their belief in the truth or falsity of the conclusion.

A syllogism ( – syllogismos – " conclusion ," " inference ") is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition ( the conclusion ) is inferred from two or more others ( the premises ) of a specific form.

Inference rules that introduce a logical connective in the conclusion are known as introduction rules.

Addiction or other deleterious effects from the consumption of the leaf in its natural form have not been documented in over a 5, 000 year time span, thus leading to the logical conclusion that coca left in its natural form causes no addictive properties at all.

If both premises are true, the terms are clear and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion of the argument follows by logical necessity.

The conclusion Fields reached is that the probability that the princes were, in fact, murdered is about 50 % to 70 %, and if they were, the probability that Richard did it is in the same range, so the logical probability that Richard is guilty is 25 % to 49 %, which is less than 50-50.

A rule of inference is a rule justifying a logical step from hypothesis to conclusion.

This point of view takes the belief, that the only important freedoms are market freedoms, to its logical conclusion.

The logical conclusion is that texts that identify Pilate as procurator are more likely following Tacitus or are unaware of the pre-44 practice.

Taken to its logical conclusion as the slope becomes vertical, a funicular becomes an elevator.

The earlier halakha did not confine itself to the mere literal meaning of single passages, but sought to draw conclusions from the wording of the texts in question by logical deductions, by combinations with other passages, etc.

Synthetic or axiomatic geometry is the branch of geometry which makes use of axioms, theorems and logical arguments to draw conclusions, as opposed to analytic and algebraic geometries which use analysis and algebra to perform geometric computations and solve problems.

A more specific goal is to allow logical reasoning to draw inferences based on the logical content of the input data.

She concludes that given the Jewish community's tacit acceptance of other seemingly " heretical " Jews as part of the ethnic Jewish community, it would be difficult to find a consistently logical reason to reject Messianic Judaism, although she is quite clear that communities can draw boundaries as they see fit.

A strategy is to draw a clear distinction between the logical model ( in which surrogate keys do not appear ) and the physical implementation of that model, to ensure that the logical model is correct and reasonably well normalised, and to ensure that the physical model is a correct implementation of the logical model.

The items require some mathematical skills, but is primarily aimed at testing the ability to draw logical conclusions.

In artificial intelligence, knowledge-based agents draw on a pool of logical sentences to infer conclusions about the world.

One of the first to draw comparisons with The Year of the Sex Olympics and the rise of reality television programmes ( soap operas without professional actors ), such as Big Brother, Castaway 2000 and Survivor, was the journalist Nancy Banks-Smith in a review of the first series of the UK version of Big Brother for The Guardian in 2000, a theme she later expounded upon in 2003, writing that the play " foretold the reality show and, in the scramble for greater sensation, its logical outcome ".

Even these rules, he would not permit to apply to important questions, such as capital cases in which no express Scriptural warrant for punishment existed ; he would not consent to attach a sentence of death, or even a fine, to a crime or misdemeanor on the strength of a mere inference, however logical, where no such punishment is clearly stated in Scripture ( Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah, v. 45b ), or to draw a rule from a law itself based on an inference ( Yerushalmi Kiddushin, i. 59a ).

The individuals then draw logical conclusions about why they behaved as they did.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

In the area of private label competition, it is logical to expect a continuation of trends which have been under way during the first decade.

And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.

It is absurd to speak of philosophy as a superior enterprise to sociology, since the former is a logical, rational discipline, where sociology is essentially descriptive and empirical.

In the new situation, philosophy is able to provide the social sciences with the same guidance that mathematics offers the physical sciences, a reservoir of logical relations that can be used in framing hypotheses having explanatory and predictive value.

Therefore, a broad concept of over-all submarine defense is needed for co-ordination of the Navy's efforts, for a logical presentation to the public, for industry's guidance, and as a basis for a program to the Congress.

As retinal images are conceded to be an integral function of the brain it seems logical to suppose that the nerves, between the inner brain and the eyes, carry the direct drive for cooperation from the various brain centers -- rather than to theorize on the transmission of an image which is already in required location.

The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.

The worship service is the natural and logical time to receive new members into the Church.

that is, for any statement that is a logical consequence of there actually exists a deduction of the statement from.

There is certainly a case for saying that Crooked House ( 1949 ) and Ordeal by Innocence ( 1957 ), which are not Poirot novels at all but so easily could have been, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of Poirot himself within the Poirot sequence.

In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replacement for expressions in logical proofs.

When one turns from the dombocs introduction to the laws themselves, it is difficult to uncover any logical arrangement.

For example, an " anti-realist " who denies that other minds exist ( i. e., a solipsist ) is quite different from an " anti-realist " who claims that there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not there are unobservable other minds ( i. e., a logical behaviorist ).

It is possible to carry this division to its logical extreme in which each member of the string section plays his or her own unique part.

A forest is a collection of trees that share a common global catalog, directory schema, logical structure, and directory configuration.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russel and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards ' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the a view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.