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  • Symbols are often used in Logic instead of concrete terms, not only in Symbolic Logic where the science is treated algebraically (as by Dr. Venn in his _Symbolic Logic_), but in ordinary manuals; so that it may be well to explain the use of them before going further.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Symbolic is a good word since the US has not cared to help.

    Presidential candidates sign joint statement on Darfur 2008

  • Symbolic is usually another term for bullshit, but that doesn't sell.

    Another Kick In The Bag--Courtesy Of Seattle 2008

  • It comes from a chapter called "Josquin's Mass for All Saints and the Book of Revelation" in a book titled Symbolic scores: Studies in the music of the Renaissance:

    The Introit Gaudeamus bls 2009

  • It comes from a chapter called "Josquin's Mass for All Saints and the Book of Revelation" in a book titled Symbolic scores: Studies in the music of the Renaissance:

    Archive 2009-10-01 bls 2009

  • And I would have kept on going but I needed to make money, and I remember reading to this day a book called The Symbolic Crusade by a man named Gusfield.

    Is The Drug War Forever? 1998

  • "Symbolic" marching was also taking place on the Victoria Falls boarder post in Zambia, said David Kalete, Civicus, and the international citizen alliance organisation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • To leave this place to enter the so-called Symbolic Order ” that is, men's world of language, rules, and laws ” makes little sense for woman.

    Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

  • It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.

    A Modernist Prometheus Hal Duncan 2005

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