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logical and inconsistency
The mysteries are intended to be solved by the reader, thanks to the placement of a logical or factual inconsistency somewhere within the text.
This reasoning implies that all other alternatives such as Buddhism and Islam, when followed to their logical conclusions, descend into absurdity, arbitrariness or inconsistency.
Dozens of scientists responded with answers to Dingle's claims, explaining why the reciprocity of the Lorentz transformation does not entail any logical inconsistency, but Dingle rejected all the explanations.
Plantinga has also argued that there is no logical inconsistency between the existence of evil and the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, wholly good God.
As noted by Weyl, Formal logical systems also run the risk of inconsistency ; in Peano arithmetic, this arguably has already been settled with several proofs of consistency, but there is debate over whether or not they are sufficiently finitary to be meaningful.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
Ti uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.
The reader must be aware that the importance of the experiment is not in justifying one answer of the ambiguous problem, but in demonstrating the inconsistency of applying the logical rules by the people when the problem is set in two different contexts but with very similar connection between the facts.
The defining characteristics of " design by committee " are needless complexity, internal inconsistency, logical flaws, banality, and the lack of a unifying vision.
However, as they approach it he realizes that the same logical inconsistency exists with the Piggy's version of the story.
Chief Justice Knox and Justice Gavan Duffy agreed in Clyde Engineering Co Ltd v Cowburn that a simple test of logical contradiction was " not sufficient or even appropriate in every case ", and enunciated this test: where one statute confers a right, and the other takes away the right, even if the right may be waived or abandoned, there is an inconsistency, whereupon the State law would then be invalid to the extent of the inconsistency.

logical and Cretan
On 10 March 1905, the rebels gathered in Theriso and declared " the political union of Crete with Greece as a single free constitutional state "; the resolution was given to the Great Powers, where it was argued that the illegitimate provisional arrangement was preventing the island's economic growth and that the only logical solution to the " Cretan Question " was the unification with Greece.

logical and asserting
Where Hegel argues that an ultimate understanding of the logical structure of the world is an understanding of the logical structure of God's mind, Kierkegaard asserting that for God reality can be a system but it cannot be so for any human individual because both reality and humans are incomplete and all philosophical systems imply completeness.
It puts one in the position of asserting or implying that truth or standards of logical consistency are relative to a particular thinker or group and that under some other standard, the position is correct despite its failure to stand up to logic.
The read cycle is started by precharging both the bit lines to a logical 1, then asserting the word line WL, enabling both the access transistors.
In logic and mathematics, the logical biconditional ( sometimes known as the material biconditional ) is the logical connective of two statements asserting " p if and only if q ", where q is a hypothesis ( or antecedent ) and p is a conclusion ( or consequent ).
They are construed, instead, as logical devices so that asserting that a sentence is true is just a quoted way of asserting the sentence itself.
However, they point out that Luce Irigaray might still be correct in asserting that E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup > is a " masculinist " equation, since " the social genealogy of a proposition has no logical bearing on its truth value.
Tu quoque (), ( Latin for " you, too " or " you, also ") or the appeal to hypocrisy, is a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position ; it attempts to show that a criticism or objection applies equally to the person making it.
Ryle attempts to prove that the official doctrine is entirely false, not in detail but in principle, by asserting that it arises out of incorrectly confusing two logical-types, or categories, as being compatible ; it represents the facts of mental life as if they belonged to one logical type / category, when they actually belong to another.
In the course of his argument, Ramsey observes that there are many different ways of asserting what is really the same proposition, at least, so far as the abstract logical meanings of sentences are concerned.

logical and all
During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.
After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.
So, for happy years, Helva scooted around in her shell with her classmates, playing such games as Stall, Power-Seek, studying her lessons in trajectory, propulsion techniques, computation, logistics, mental hygiene, basic alien psychology, philology, space history, law, traffic, codes: all the et ceteras that eventually became compounded into a reasoning, logical, informed citizen.
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.
A broadcast domain is a logical division of a computer network, in which all nodes can reach each other by broadcast at the data link layer.
The logical positivist interpretation is that Hume analyses causal propositions, such as " A caused B ", in terms of regularities in perception: " A caused B " is equivalent to " Whenever A-type events happen, B-type ones follow ", where " whenever " refers to all possible perceptions.
However, most real numbers are not definable: the set of all definable numbers is countably infinite ( because the set of all logical formulas is ) while the set of real numbers is uncountably infinite ( see Cantor's diagonal argument ).
They need to be analyzed and criticized in all their manifestations ; the function of both logical and axiological oppositions must be studied in all discourses to provide meaning and values.
But this doesn ’ t mean that they don ’ t need to be analyzed and criticized in all its manifestations, showing the way these oppositions, both logical and axiological, are at work in all discourse for it to be able to produce meaning and values.
" Kant stated that all mathematical and scientific statements are synthetic a priori propositions because they are necessarily true but our knowledge about the attributes of the mathematical or physical subjects we can only get by logical inference.
The core of the Propædia is its " Outline of Knowledge ", which aims to provide a logical framework for all human knowledge.
Paradoxical versions of the Epimenides problem are closely related to a class of more difficult logical problems, including the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, and the Burali-Forti paradox, all of which have self-reference in common with Epimenides.
Researchers have found that transitions, such as from concrete to abstract logical thought, do not occur at the same time in all domains.
For example, while " all men are mortal " is unfalsifiable, it is a logical consequence of the falsifiable theory that " every man dies before he reaches the age of 150 years ".
Depending on the particular formalism adopted for the calculus, it may be seen as a simple application of a " functional substitution " rule of inference, as in Gödel's paper, or it may be proved by considering the formal proof of, replacing in it all occurrences of Q by some other formula with the same free variables, and noting that all logical axioms in the formal proof remain logical axioms after the substitution, and all rules of inference still apply in the same way.
Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or intellectually limiting effects of authority, confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmas.

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