symbolic logic
noun
: a science of developing and representing logical principles by means of a formalized system consisting of primitive symbols, combinations of these symbols, axioms, and rules of inference
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The first systems used symbolic logic and determinism.
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Training in symbolic logic makes these sort of reasonings second nature to voters.
—Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
These in turn are being aided by new work on neural nets as well as symbolic logic.
—John McCarthy, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2023
The team also showed that, for 3-by-3 grids, their system was almost 250 times faster than a traditional method that uses rules of symbolic logic to reason, since that method must search through an enormous rulebook to determine the correct next step.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
Will deep learning ever be able to learn symbolic logic?
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Training in symbolic logic makes these sort of reasonings second nature to voters.
—Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
These in turn are being aided by new work on neural nets as well as symbolic logic.
—John McCarthy, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2023
The team also showed that, for 3-by-3 grids, their system was almost 250 times faster than a traditional method that uses rules of symbolic logic to reason, since that method must search through an enormous rulebook to determine the correct next step.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
Will deep learning ever be able to learn symbolic logic?
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
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