logic

IPA: ɫˈɑdʒɪk

(uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
(philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
(uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
(countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
(uncountable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
(uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
(countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.

(intransitive, derogatory) To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
(transitive) To apply logical reasoning to.
(transitive) To overcome by logical argument.

Examples of "logic" in Sentences

Your logic is a shock to rational minds everywhere.
I certainly would have never used the term "logic" - Logic doesn't apply.
Ick. Mary Sue Killers think they are doing people a favour, but their logic is awful.
I never attribute credibility to someone who got a degree in logic from a box of Cracker Jack.
The glaring fault in the logic is assuming that you will “replace the calories” burned from walking to the store.
The term logic has two different meanings, an ancient and a modern one, and we vainly try to bridge the gulf between them.
That branch of logic which deals with _the advance from individual instances to general principles_, is called _inductive logic_.
But Bush's main logic is that war is necessary, and I think more and more we'll hear the accompanying claim that it can also be beneficial in the idealistic ways that Bob Kaplan described.
In some things it may be well that emotion is greater than logic; but emotion _in logic_ is sad to contend with, sad even to contemplate -- and such is too often the reasoning of the untrained woman.