Logically Sentence Examples

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  • If I had tried to figure it out logically, things might have fallen into place.

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  • Of course, logically he knew there was nothing she could do about it.

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  • From a material pressure within we logically infer a material pressure outside.

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  • So a new theory is logically demanded to explain why these conditions, which were chronic, failed to produce a change long before it actually occurred.

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  • Mr Roosevelt argued not only that they were consistent but that the one logically followed the other.

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  • Historically it is null; logically it is full of gaping flaws, practically its manipulations of the volonte de tous and the volonte generale are clearly insufficient to obviate anarchy.

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  • He means that the logical analysis of demonstration in the Analytics would teach them beforehand that there cannot be demonstration, though there must be induction, of an axiom, or any other principle; whereas, if they are not logically prepared for metaphysics, they will expect a demonstration of the axiom, as Heraclitus, the Heraclitean Cratylus and the Sophist Protagoras actually did, - and in vain.

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  • This position follows logically from the theory of English law that all offences are breaches of the king's peace.

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  • They can be explained, partly by the origin of the State - for the most part through a voluntary union of countries possessed by a strong sense of their own individuality - partly by the influence in Austria of the Germanic spirit, well understood by the Slays, which has nothing of the Latin tendency to reduce all questions of administration to clear-cut formulae as part of a logically consistent system.

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  • The word logically (Xoyucws) means the same as dialectically (Seaaer ruccos).

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  • As the same limit is applied by him to all transcendent rational " ideals," and especially to those which refer to the content of the notion of the world, and, like all psychological and ontological "ideals," belong to the imaginary transcendent, his conclusion is that reason, in transcending experience, logically conceives " ideals," but never logically infers corresponding realities.

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  • Logically, he understood Mike's decision.

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  • Herder's Spinozism, which is set forth in his little work, Vom Erkennen and Empfinden der menschlichen Seele (1778), is much less logically conceived than Lessing's.

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  • By all accounts his injuries were far too severe to have been logically self-inflicted.

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  • Nay, it may be questioned how far it is either psychologically or logically possible to turn general scepticism into a coherent doctrine.

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  • In Gemini, Mercury boosts the power to think logically.

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  • Between the ages of seven and 12, children begin to reason logically and organize their thoughts coherently.

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  • Towards Russia the policy of Czechoslovakia was logically consistent.

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  • Starting from the hypothesis that Sweden was "DenmarkNorway's most active and irreconcilable enemy," Bernstorff logically included France, the secular ally of Sweden, among the hostile powers with whom an alliance was to be avoided, and drew near to Great Britain as the natural foe of France, especially during the American War of Independence, and this too despite the irritation occasioned in Denmark-Norway by Great Britain's masterful interpretation of the expression "contraband."

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  • It is not logically distinguishable from the halakha, for the latter or forensic element makes up with the haggada the Midrash, but, being more popular than the halakha, is often itself styled the Midrash.

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  • Logically regarded, i.e.

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  • His limitation of theological knowledge to the bounds of human need might, if logically pressed, run perilously near phenomenalism; and his epistemology ("we only know things in their activities") does not cover this weakness.

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  • Of course it remains debatable whether this philosophical Absolute is necessarily interpreted as a personal God, or perhaps even whether logically it can be.

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  • The prosecution of such inquiries is beginning to make unnecessary much ingenious speculation of a kind that was prominent from r880 to 'goo; much futile effort has been wasted in the endeavour to find on Darwinian principles special " selection-values " for phenomena the universality of which places them outside the possibility of having relations with the particular conditions of particular organisms. On the other hand, many of those who have been specially successful in grouping diverse phenomena under empirical generalizations have erred logically in posing their generalizations against such a vera causa as the preservation of favoured individuals and races.

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  • To really see how much money you may save, use one of the rent versus buy calculators to aid you in logically and realistically seeing what that savings would be.

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  • Your relationship with your boyfriend logically is not at this place, which is why you fear breaking up.

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  • Authoritative parents lay out logical rules they expect their children to follow and enforce consequences that flow logically from violations of these rules.

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  • Make sure points A through Z connect logically, and clearly state how you plan to make money with grant funds.

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  • The extreme claim of the great medieval popes, that the priest, as "ruler over spiritual things," was as much superior to temporal rulers as the soul is to the body (see INNOCENT III.), led logically to the vast privileges and immunities enjoyed by the clergy during the middle ages.

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  • The attitude of a man who denies the doctrine of immortality and rejoices in the denial is not strictly pessimistic. A Christian again may be pessimistic about the present; he must logically be optimistic about the future - a teleological view of the universe implies optimism on the whole; the agnostic may be indifferent to, or pessimistic, regarding the future, while exceedingly satisfied with life as he finds it.

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  • In correspondence with these four aspects of its subject, biology is logically divisible into four chief subdivisions - I.

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  • Like many of the leading modern utilitarians, they combined with their psychological distrust of popular judgments of right and wrong, and their firm conviction that all such distinctions are based solely on law and convention, the equally unwavering principle that the wise man who would pursue pleasure logically must abstain from that which is usually denominated "wrong" or "unjust."

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  • A better choice would be to find an experienced advisor who can come in and talk to the senior in a professional manner and who can look at the situation logically and professionally.

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  • Irritability is partially caused by the decreased ability to sort through information and treat it logically with not enough sleep.

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  • Logically, this would be common sense as the game largely depends on your skill, but I can't help but feel something's not right when I try to plant a bomb and find myself stabbed in the back while my teammates stand by and calmy observe.

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  • Performance intelligence suggests the ability to perceive relationships and fit separate parts together logically into a whole.

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  • Deciding on wants vs. needs can be emotional, but if you look at everything logically, you'll find ways to save on discretionary spending.

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  • Other paragraphs will contain additional important information, logically grouped under subheadings.

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  • Howie, I can't tell you what to do; only give you advice and try to look at the options logically.

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  • Leave it to Alex to think so logically on the spur of the moment, and in such an emotional situation.

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  • Logically, he understood they were needed, but it didn't make things feel better.

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  • The second part of the Laws of Thought contained a corresponding attempt to discover a general method in probabilities, which should enable us from the given probabilities of any system of events to determine the consequent probability of any other event logically connected with the given events.

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  • The Code itself was carefully and logically arranged and the order of its sections was conditioned by their subject-matter.

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  • Personal religion now became an important element in Hebrew piety and upon this there logically followed the idea of personal responsibility.

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  • In the second, which took place in the Church of St John and St Paul, and lasted three days, he undertook to refute innumerable errors in Aristotelians, mathematicians and schoolmen, to conduct his dispute either logically or by the secret doctrine of numbers, &c. According to Aldus, who attended the debate and published an account of it in his dedication to Crichton prefixed to Cicero's "Paradoxa" (1581), the young Scotsman was completely successful.

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  • This (obviously valid) distinction logically involves the consequence that the object, or content, of knowledge, viz.

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  • We have already seen that it was the theory of the Eastern emperors - a theory which logically followed from the homage of the crusaders to Alexiusthat the conquests of the crusaders belonged to their empire, and were held by the crusading princes as fiefs.

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  • If, for instance, we find that instead of the natural number of Malpighian bodies in the kidney there are only half that number, then we are entitled to say that this defect represents disease of structure; and if we find that the organ is excreting a new substance, such as albumen, we can affirm logically that its function is abnormal.

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  • The impossibility of logically carrying out either theory has given rise to doubts as to the unity of the book.

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  • Like the Arabian logicians, and some of the scholastics, who held that ideas existed in a threefold form - ante res, in rebus and post res - he laid down the principle that the archetypal ideas existed metaphysically in the ultimate unity or intelligence, physically in the world of things, and logically in signs, symbols or notions.

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  • He opposed woman suffrage on the ground that the majority of women did not want it and never would, and declared that until woman should "emancipate herself from the thraldom to etiquette," he "could not see how the ` woman's rights theory ' is ever to be anything more than a logically defensible abstraction."

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  • Logically regarded, the origin of all teaching and learning of an intellectual kind is a process of induction (Enraywyi) from particulars to universal, and of syllogism (ovXXoyco-p5s) from universal to further particulars; induction, whenever it starts from sense, becomes the origin of scientific knowledge (bruiriran); while there is also a third process of example (1rapaSeiyµa) from particular to particular, which produces only persuasion.

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  • By the rules of induction from concomitant variations, we are logically bound to infer the realistic conclusion that outer physical stimuli cause inner sensations of sensible effects.

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  • His metaphysical deduction from this psychological view is that all we know is mental phenomena, " the whole outer world exists for us only in our ideas," and all that our reason can logically do beyond these phenomena is to frame transcendent " ideals."

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  • If knowledge is experience of ideas distinguished by inner will of apperception into subject and object in inseparable connexion, if the starting-point is ideas, if judgment is analysis of an aggregate idea, if inference is a mediate reference of the members of an aggregate of ideas to one another, then, as Wundt says, all we can know, and all reason can logically infer from such data, is in our ideas, and consciousness without an object of idea is an abstraction; so that reason, in transcending experience, can show the necessity of ideas and " ideals," but infer no corresponding reality beyond, whether in nature, or in Man, or in God.

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  • Logically it was wrought iron, the essence of which was that it was (I) " iron " as distinguished from steel, and XIV.

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  • The study of the Sumerian vocabulary falls logically into three divisions.

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  • In the first instance, then, Hume's philosophical work is to be regarded as the attempt to supply for empiricism in psychology a consistent, that is, a logically developed theory of knowledge.

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  • His main result is that God is infinite, and as such, incomprehensible; that his attributes of goodness, knowledge and power are credited to him only by inference from their effects; that this inference is logically valid and sufficient for human thought.

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  • In 1681, parliament, under the duke of York as commissioner, passed a test act so drafted that no human being could honestly and logically take the test.

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  • Metaphysically, all realities are parts of one ultimate reality; but logically, even philosophers think more often only of finite realities, existing men, dogs, horses, &c.; and children know that their parents exist long before they apprehend ultimate reality.

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  • The four judgments are different, and therefore logically the propositions fully expressing them are also different.

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  • If the quantity of the predicate were always thought, it ought logically to be always stated.

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  • But, as the science of inference, it can make sure that inference, on the one hand, starts from sensory judgments about sensible things and logically proceeds to inferential judgments about similar things beyond sense, and, on the other hand, cannot logically go beyond the similar.

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  • Although various commanders had reported the Sleme - Mrzli line indefensible, steps which should have followed logically had not been taken.

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  • Rejection of an intermediate state after death follows the Protestant idea of justification by faith as logically as the doctrine of purgatory results from the Catholic idea of justification by works.

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  • There will still be room for the scientific use of the imagination and for the creative flashes of genius.3 If, then, Bacon himself made no contributions to science, if no discovery can be shown to be due to the use of his rules, if his method be logically defective, and the problem to which it was applied one from its nature incapable of adequate solution, it may not unreasonably be asked, How has he come to be looked upon as the great leader in the reformation of modern science?

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  • Bostrom's philosophy is logically expressed and based on the one great conception of a spiritual, eternal, immutable Being, whose existence is absolute, above and external to the finite world of time and space.

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  • Carlyle's "great man theory of history" is logically connected with the age of Scott.

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  • Logically they are apparently taxes upon the dead, as they limit the area of bequest, but they are felt by the living who receive the estate as if the burden of taxation fell on them.

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  • As a branch of mathematics, arithmetic may be treated logically, psychologically, or historically.

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  • In the short prose romance known as the "Didot" Perceval we have, for the first time, the whole history of the relic logically set forth.

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  • It was because the issues opened led to changes so far greater than the wisest statesman then perceived, that Pitts solution, logically untenable as it was, was preferable to Burkes.

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  • This view seems logically to involve Ritschl's belief, that it is not the light of reason but the revelation of Christ which warrants the assertion of God's fatherly providential goodness.

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  • Hume's doctrine follows logically from his theory as to the nature of causality.

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  • He does not himself use the will of an omnipotent and benevolent being as a means of logically connecting individual and general happiness.

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  • The fact is that any close philosophical analysis of Spencer's system of ethics can only result in the discovery of a multitude of mutually conflicting and for the most part logically untenable theories.

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  • Logically these data completely determine the orbit in which the planet shall move, because there is only one such orbit passing through P, a; planet moving in which would have the given speed.

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  • Such knowledge is fundamentally hypothetical, and might well be accepted as such without the labour of a demonstration which is logically invalid.

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  • The former should be regarded as asserting that the whole is, not temporally, but logically, subsequent to the part, and that therefore there is an infinite regress in the notion of a whole which is infinitely divisible - a view which at any rate demands a serious refutation.

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  • The essences or forms - the intelligibilia which constitute the world of real knowledge - may be looked at in themselves (metaphysically), or as embodied in the things of sense (physically), or as expressing the processes of thought (logically).

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  • Real things, in short, are distinct existences, and, as distinct, not necessarily or logically connected in thought.

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  • The information filtered through her skepticism until she admitted he spoke too logically to be anything but right.

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  • Most respondents' views on families tended to collect together into one of two opposed and logically coherent sets of values and opinions.

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  • Serious study of the work of these economists is essential if a coherent, logically consistent ' new economics ' is to emerge.

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  • What then may we logically deduce from this state of affairs?

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  • Draw a labeled diagram to show how is a 3½ inch diskette can be logically organized into subdirectories.

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  • To abstain, therefore, from the quest for power is logically entailed by an understanding of the evil of violence.

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  • And skeptics then make the logically fallacious jump of concluding that the biblical record is indefensible!

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  • Nor, equally, is it possible to show them to be false or logically incoherent.

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  • Despite being logically incompatible, these truths are of the utmost factually veracity.

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  • Mathematical non-existence means that things are logically inconsistent, and that would be certainly enough to guarantee physical non-existence.

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  • There is no logically established linkage joining means to ends.

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  • My position, on the contrary, is that computers are logically malleable.

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  • Options after a positive test bilateral mastectomy, but if this option is chosen then logically removal the ovaries should also be considered?

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  • We built swing environments to keep the service operational in parallel, then logically cut services over to the new building.

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  • The retina of the octopus is constructed more logically than the mammalian retina.

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  • Such a position is both logically and historically untenable.

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  • He kept my mind alert and eager, and trained it to reason clearly, and to seek conclusions calmly and logically, instead of jumping wildly into space and arriving nowhere.

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  • The attorney can also negotiate on your behalf and since they are not emotionally involved in the situation, they can look at the issues logically instead of with anger or hurt.

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  • Using themes allows you to organize the vocabulary and language skills into manageable groups that logically lend themselves to being acquired at the same time.

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  • While much less well known that the original King Kong, it's a much more logically cohesive story, and is preferable in any event because the giant ape lives to be returned to his native habitat.

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  • The result is a floating header - floating because logically the heading is not really connected to any text.

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  • The prevailing views are tacked on, as it were, to the essential doctrines of Buddhism, without being thoroughly assimilated to them, or logically incorporated with them.

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  • These ideas compose a whole or inseparable unity, but we are able in a dim way to think of them as a system logically arranged.

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  • Given any propositions involving any number of terms, Boole showed how, by the purely symbolic treatment of the premises, to draw any conclusion logically contained in those premises.

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  • At the same time, in spite of his sympathy with the whole development of idealism since Kant, which leads him to reject the thing in itself, to modify a priorism, and to stop at transcendent " ideals," without postulates of practical reason, he nevertheless has so much sympathy with Kant's Kritik as on its theories of sense and understanding to build up a system of phenomenalism, according to which knowledge begins and ends with ideas, and finally on its theory of pure reason to accord to reason a power of logically forming an " ideal " of God as ground of the moral " ideal " of humanity - though without any power of logically inferring any corresponding reality.

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