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LOGICAL PROOF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does logical proof mean?
• LOGICAL PROOF (noun)
The noun LOGICAL PROOF has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LOGICAL PROOF used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Proof of a logical theorem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("logical proof" is a kind of...):
proof (a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it)
Context examples
Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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