logical form

…consciousness of the importance of logical form (forms of sentences, as well as forms or patterns of arguments). Although the medievals made many distinctions among patterns of sentences and arguments, the modern logical notion of “form” perhaps first crystallized in the work of Sir William Rowan Hamilton and the English…

…that one could separate the “logical form” of a judgment from its substance—and thus with the very possibility of logic based on a theory of logical form. When the study of logic blossomed again on German-speaking soil, contributors came from mathematics and the natural sciences.

…they possess the same “logical form.” It follows that what the symbol expresses cannot be restated in words; words present the “logical form” not of individuals but rather of the properties and relations that characterize them. (Here again is the familiar view that art presents the individuality of its…