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Logical consequence

Logical consequence
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fundamental concept in logic

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  1. Add to this the logical consequence of admitting many attributes, viz., the existence of many eternal beings. There cannot be any belief in the unity of God except by admitting that He is one simple substance, without any composition or plurality of elements; one from whatever side you view it, and by whatever test you examine…

    Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed

    States what Logical consequence is; names Logical consequence.

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  2. If the interests are forms of social interest, there is a common end in both, on the basis of which the conflict can be resolved. While such considerations do not prove that there is but one end, and that social, they may well make us hesitate about carelessly taking a position of which they are the logical consequence.

    John Dewey, Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

    Names Logical consequence.

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  3. This is nothing else than the necessity of abstract logic, which is the presupposition involved in the very fact of interrelated existence as disclosed in each immediate occasion of experience. The key to the pattern means this fact:—that from a select set of those general conditions, exemplified in any one and the same occasion, a pattern involving an infinite variety of other such conditions, also exemplified in…

    Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world

    States what Logical consequence is.

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Part of Analytic philosophy.

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