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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being logical; correctness or consistency of reasoning; logicalness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Logicalness.

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  • noun The condition of being logical

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  • noun correct and valid reasoning

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Examples

  • In the next section, where various applications of plural quantification will be discussed, I will carefully note which strains of the notion of logicality our theories PFO and PFO+ must possess for the various applications of them to succeed.

    Plural Quantification Linnebo, Øystein 2008

  • "Male widow" is one example; versions of it can be used as counterexamples to the different versions of the idea of logicality as permutation invariance

    Logical Truth Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

  • Reason and logicality are always necessary, but not as an immediate majority in this instance.

    Flower's Lawful, Logical Wind SVGL 2009

  • Though Mr. Frayn rewrites it slightly for every major production, "Noises Off" is an almost perfectly crafted play, owing to its relentless logicality: Its plot, a chain of syllogisms, ends only when the curtain comes literally down.

    Things Go Wrong, Laughter Ensues Paul Levy 2011

  • Bat Boy, however, had demonstrated a propensity to proceed with less linear logicality: escape lab, attack girl, endorse Al Gore, attack girl, endorse John Kerry.

    Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010

  • So the invariance criterion seems to accord at least partially with common intuitions about logicality or topic neutrality, and with our logical practice.

    Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

  • It is simply irrelevant whether an expression is required for a particular purpose: its logicality rests on features that it has independently of any use to which we might put it.

    Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

  • But such a metalanguage cannot be ruled out without begging the question about the logicality of “large.”

    Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

  • Indeed, it is the antithesis of idiomatic Wagner, thought out with an icy logicality and precision.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Indeed, it is the antithesis of idiomatic Wagner, thought out with an icy logicality and precision.

    Period-performance Bruckner Patrick J. Smith 2008

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