Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Logos (Greek: word) Saint John’s name for the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Logos (, a word, as usually rendered), a special term in Christology, in consequence of its use as such by the apostle John, especially in the opening verses of his Gospel. An excellent article on the subject … Continue reading “Logos”

Logomachy (Gr. logos, word + mache, battle) A contention in which words are involved without their references. A contention which lacks the real grounds of difference, or one in which allegedly opposed views are actually not on the same level of discourse. A battle of words alone, which ignores their symbolic character. — J. K. … Continue reading “Logomachy”

Logistic system The formal construction of a logistic system requires a list of primitive symbols (these are usually taken as marks but may also be sounds or other things — they must be capable of instances which are, recognizably, the same or different symbols, and capable of utterance in which instances of them arc put … Continue reading “Logistic system”

Logistic The old use of the word logistic to mean the art of calculation, or common arithmetic, is now nearly obsolete. In Seventeenth Century English the corresponding adjective was also sometimes used to mean simply logical. Leibniz occasionally employed logistica (as also logica mathematica) as one of various alternative names for his calculus ratiocinator. The … Continue reading “Logistic”

Logical truth See Meaning, kinds of, 3; and Truth, semantical. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Logical Positivism See Scientific Empiricism. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Logical meaning See meaning, kinds of, 3. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Logical machines Mechanical devices or instruments designed to effect combinations of propositions, or premisses, with which the mechanism is supplied, and derive from them correct logical conclusions. Both premisses and conclusions may be expressed by means of conventional symbols. A contrivance devised by William Stanley Jevons in 1869 was a species of logical abacus. Another … Continue reading “Logical machines”

Logical Empiricism See Scientific Empiricism I. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Logic, traditional the name given to those parts and that method of treatment of formal logic which have come down substantially unchanged from classical and medieval times. Traditional logic emphasizes the analysis of propositions into subject and predicate and the associated classification into the four forms, A, E, I, O; and it is concerned chiefly … Continue reading “Logic, traditional”