logical relation
- noun
- Specialized
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relación lógica
- These two clauses have no logical relation whatsoever.
Examples
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In his view, probability represented a logical relation like entailment (Salmon dubbed it "partial entailment") between evidence and hypothesis, but, unlike most writers on probability, Keynes took probability to be only partially ordered.
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The teacher explained that a logical relation exists when the truth of one statement guarantees the truth of another.
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The actual world is a construction out of our ideas and the logical relations between them.
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But in this text, this logical relation is assumed.
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Since each of the two premises can involve any one of four logical relations, there are 16 such combinations.
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An alternative interpretation of probability takes probability to be a logical relation between sentences.
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Dewey is more interested in the ethical consequences of the application of sciences to everyday practice than in their logical relations.
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But logical relations in the abstract (without any particular connectives being specified) serve only to confuse the proposed pattern (if indeed without specific relations it can be a pattern at all) and distance it from the particulars it is supposed to explain.
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This move distributes the concept of story between two senses: one genetic and ideal, and the other interpretative and pragmatic, without acknowledging that the logical relation between story and discourse has been inverted in the process.
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When A is well-founded by B, Leibniz expresses this also as "A resulting from B," which may (misleadingly) suggest that it is a causal relation, whereas it is in fact a logical relation.
Academic text (1998)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a relation determined by logic' is directly and compositionally derived from 'logical' (pertaining to logic or sound reasoning) + 'relation' (a connection between things). This is a standard adjectival modification pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase logical relation comes from the image of a clear, reasoned link between two statements: logical means based on clear thinking and relation means the connection between them. So it now means the special kind of connection that shows how one statement 'follows from', 'matches', or 'contradicts' another.
