LOGICAL SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logical system mean? 

• LOGICAL SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun LOGICAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a system of reasoning

  Familiarity information: LOGICAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGICAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of reasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

logic; logical system; system of logic

Hypernyms ("logical system" is a kind of...):

system; system of rules (a complex of methods or rules governing behavior)

Domain member category:

extrapolate (gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating)

induce (reason or establish by induction)

deduce; deduct; derive; infer (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

contradict; negate (prove negative; show to be false)

elicit (derive by reason)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logical system"):

Aristotelian logic (the syllogistic logic of Aristotle as developed by Boethius in the Middle Ages)

formal logic; mathematical logic; symbolic logic (any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity)