FORMAL LOGIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does formal logic mean? 

• FORMAL LOGIC (noun)
  The noun FORMAL LOGIC has 1 sense:

1. any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity

  Familiarity information: FORMAL LOGIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORMAL LOGIC (noun)

Meaning:

Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

formal logic; mathematical logic; symbolic logic

Hypernyms ("formal logic" is a kind of...):

logic; logical system; system of logic (a system of reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "formal logic"):

Boolean algebra; Boolean logic (a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers)

propositional calculus; propositional logic (a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them)

functional calculus; predicate calculus (a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions))

modal logic (a system of logic whose formal properties resemble certain moral and epistemological concepts)

fuzzy logic (a form of mathematical logic in which truth can assume a continuum of values between 0 and 1)