mathematical logic

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

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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. Anish Kapoor

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. Bertrand Russell

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. Bertrand Russell

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! Hilary Putnam

[Oddly enough, Putnam believes part of the attraction of some of these formalisms is their obscurity]. "I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!" Hilary Putnam

This was the might of France, the pride of France, the tactic of the world's first conscript army, and this column, Clausel's counter-attack, ignored cold mathematical logic. It was not defeated by the line. Bernard Cornwell

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