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  • noun The part of metaphysics which concerns logic.

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  • noun philosophy The metatheory of logic; the study of properties of logical systems.

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meta- +‎ logic

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Examples

  • His concern for utmost rigor in the formalization and execution of logic, coupled with a nominalistic rejection of abstract entities, led to a precise but highly unusual metalogic.

    Stanisław Leśniewski Simons, Peter 2007

  • Object logics can be formulated within Isabelle's metalogic by using its many syntactic and deductive tools.

    Automated Reasoning Portoraro, Frederic 2005

  • By analogy with Hilbert's metamathematics, Tarski constructed metalogic as a distinct discipline.

    AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

  • Metalogic today occupies in the activities of logicians a place equal at least in importance to that of logic properly so-called, since beyond the studies specifically assigned to metalogic there is scarcely any work in logic not accompanied by a critical examina - tion on the metalogical level.

    AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

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