This sabotage may take the form of a logic bomb, a computer virus, or creating general havoc.

De inventione dialectica was very influential in creating a proper place for logic in rhetorical studies, and was of great significance in the education of early humanists.

So, God, by nature logical and unable to violate the laws of logic, cannot make a boulder so heavy he cannot lift it because that would violate the law of non contradiction by creating an immovable object and an unstoppable force.

Design logic views the business model as an outcome of creating new organizational structures or changing existing structures to pursue a new opportunity.

This may include such techniques as logic simulation, formal verification, emulation, or creating an equivalent pure software model ( see Simics, for example ).

Design differentiation and customization is achieved by creating custom metal layers that create custom connections between predefined lower-layer logic elements.

Nonetheless, the description of the social conditions and the logic that the characters use is accurate to the Three Kingdoms period, creating " believable " situations and characters, even if they are not historically accurate.

* SAP HANA Application Services, for creating business logic on the HANA engine / app server

* SOPC Builder, a tool in Quartus II software that eliminates manual system integration tasks by automatically generating interconnect logic and creating a testbench to verify functionality

China has switched this logic, hoping that creating the culture of the nuclear family with the one-child policy it will produce modernization.

The mechanical beings known as Builders, which move around reforming and creating new landscapes, appear to have begun building without end, creating an enormous structure with little internal logic or coherence.

* On October 2, 2003 Yung-Hsun Lin, also known as Andy Lin, changed code on a server at Medco Health Solutions Inc. Fair Lawn, New Jersey headquarters, where he was employed as a Unix administrator, creating a logic bomb set to go off on his birthday in 2004.

Rather than creating a poetic effect or mood, as Poe recommends in " The Philosophy of Composition ", Poe is creating a tale based on rationality and logic.

According to journalist Kevin Morris, " this is the kind of merger that makes sense – giving a bigger audience and a stronger vehicle to deliver SiliconBlue ’ s novel technology and strategy, creating a path for extending the life and the capability of some of Lattice ’ s key revenue products, and accelerating Lattice ’ s expansion into one of the key green fields for programmable logic – low-cost, low-power programmable devices for the high-volume mobile market.

It also involves creating a language and logic of liberation, one of opposition and affirmation, and a corresponding liberational practice to create a just and good society and pose an effective paradigm of mutually beneficial human relations and human possibility.

Simmons started creating a " four-line-format " which shown many different translations: direct word-for-word showing the logic of the sentence, pronunciation, reading, etc.

Breaking with the authoritarian logic of the Constitution of 1967, it made unbailable crimes those of torture and of actions directed against the democratic state and the constitutional order, thus creating constitutional devices to block coups d ' état of any kind.

He wrote that Humayun will also be remembered for creating some " immortal " characters: " Misir Ali is basically a rational psychologist committed to unraveling the mysteries around him through logic.

Much like Jorgensen, Canadian artist Barb Hunt works to question the acceptance of military logic in society by creating knitted antipersonnel land mines out of wool.

According to the logic of the Friedman rule, the opportunity cost of holding money faced by private agents should equal the social cost of creating additional fiat money.

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

A strong interest in using logic is that this kind of software is able to give the user clear explanation of what it is doing ( the " Why?

Logical empiricism ( aka logical positivism or neopositivism ) was an early 20th century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism ( e. g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge ) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

have derived a strong impulsion from James, but have more interest than he had in logic and mathematics and the abstract part of philosophy.

A problem not solved by this edition, however, was " multi-valued logic ", where a signal's drive strength ( none, weak or strong ) and unknown values are also considered.

" At the time George Boole's algebra of logic made a strong counterpoint to ordinary number algebra, so the term " universal " served to calm strained sensibilities.

This is in part because of the requirement of strong fragments of second-order logic to carry out his reduction, and because the statement of conservativity seems to require quantification over abstract models or deductions.

The grievances have been described by one historian as a shopping-list of demands but which nevertheless have a strong logic underlying them, articulating " a desire to limit the power of the gentry, exclude them from the world of the village, constrain rapid economic change, prevent the overexploitation of communal resources, and remodel the values of the clergy ".

In eulogizing Mantle, sportscaster Bob Costas described him as " a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

The systematic search for the foundations of mathematics started at the end of the 19th century, and formed a new mathematical discipline called mathematical logic, with strong links to theoretical computer science.

The logic here is that a strong military deters aggression and coercion ( blackmail ), and that no potential aggressor in his right mind would dare to attack or blackmail someone stronger than he is, because he knows he would be swiftly defeated if he tried to.

As it was written in the vernacular, it became quite popular and was in use, as a paradigm of traditional term logic, into the twentieth century, introducing the reader to logic, and exhibiting strong Cartesian elements in its metaphysics and epistemology ( Arnauld having been one of the main philosophers whose objections were published, with replies, in Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy.

Finitary infinite matroids are studied in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic with strong ties to algebra.

The logic of the policy was based on the belief that, even in light of its continuing shortages and economic duress, North's Communist regime will not collapse, disintegrate, or reform itself, even if the South were to apply strong pressure.

In mathematical logic, the diagonal lemma or fixed point theorem establishes the existence of self-referential sentences in certain formal theories of the natural numbers -- specifically those theories that are strong enough to represent all computable functions.

Many practitioners prefer to distinguish " weak " critiques ( supported by arguments from induction, testimony, appeals to authority or to emotion, consensus, chain of improbabilities ( e. g., butterfly effect ), or appeals to analogy ) from " strong critiques " that rely only on deduction, mathematical proof, and formal logic.

In the history of western thought, essence has often served as a vehicle for doctrines that tend to individuate different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties ; in this eminently logical meaning, the concept has given a strong theoretical and common-sense basis to the whole family of logical theories based on the " possible worlds " analogy set up by Leibniz and developed in the intensional logic from Carnap to Kripke, which was later challenged by " extensionalist " philosophers such as Quine.

" Holmes also took issue with the majority's logic in allowing Congress to regulate goods themselves regarded as immoral, while at the same time disallowing regulation of goods whose use may be considered just as immoral in a more indirect sense: " The notion that prohibition is any less prohibition when applied to things now thought evil I do not understand ... to say that it is permissible as against strong drink but not as against the product of ruined lives.

Albert's work in logic also shows strong influence by William of Ockham, whose commentaries on the logica vetus ( on Porphyry, and Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione ) were made the subject of a series of works called Quaestiones by Albert.

This logic is primarily based on the idea that McDonald's countries have established such strong economic interdependence among themselves that they would have too much to lose to ever wage a war against one another.

Formal metrics tend to have a strong foundations in algebra, probability or logic.