Concept
Logical consequence

Overview
fundamental concept in logic
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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.
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.
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.
Philosophers who discussed Logical consequence
- Dignāga
- Karl Marx
- Per Martin-Löf
- Intellectual
- J. L. Austin
- Ronald Dworkin
- Peter Abelard
- Roderick Chisholm
- Saul Kripke
- Galen Strawson
- Ernst Mally
- Nathan Salmón
- Evert Willem Beth
- Jc Beall
- Ivan Orlov (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Formal language
- German language
- Argument
- If and only if
- Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)
- Kurt Gödel
- Proof theory
- Model theory
- Validity (logic)
- Polish language
- Rule of inference
- Justification (epistemology)
- Michael Dummett
- Philosophical logic
- Empirical evidence
- Logical form
- Modal logic
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Emil Leon Post
- Formal system
- Logical truth
- Logic
- Oxford University Press
- Alonzo Church
Opposing perspectives
- Informal logic
- Moral skepticism
- Relation (philosophy)
- Logic translation
- Presupposition
- Non-classical logic
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.