Assertion: logic | /r/HasProperty | formal
Facets:
value: generally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Most authors sympathetic to the idea that logic is formal have tried to go beyond the minimal thesis.
text: A propositional calculus or logic (also a sentential calculus) is a formal system in which formulae representing propositions can be formed by combining atomic propositions using logical connectives, and in which a system of formal proof rules establishes certain formulae as "theorems".
text: This is what is meant by saying that logic is a formal science.
text: Logic is generally considered formal when it analyzes and represents the form of any valid argument type.
text: The logic of action is the formal study of action in which formal languages are the main tool of analysis.
text: A consequence of taking logic to treat special kinds of argument is that it leads to identification of special kinds of truth, the logical truths (with logic equivalently being the study of logical truth), and excludes many of the original objects of study of logic that are treated as informal logic.
text: Logic is formal in that it is totally general.