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The word "logical" in literature has been employed in a remarkably diverse manner, functioning both as a marker of clear, systematic reasoning and as a tool for irony or metaphor. In some texts, it denotes a strict adherence to rationality and methodical thought—for instance, when used to highlight the rigorous nature of syllogistic proof or mathematical precision ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, authors like Nietzsche and Brontë have applied it to character and temperament—whether critiquing a deficiency in "logical courage" ([4]) or describing an inherent consistency even in passion ([5]). Moreover, "logical" frequently appears in discussions turning on cause and effect, suggesting that certain outcomes are self-evident or inevitable ([6], [7], [8]). This dual usage—as both a descriptor of an ideal cognitive process and a sometimes ironic commentary on the constraints of rationality—demonstrates the term’s wide-reaching influence across genres and eras in literature.
  1. The conclusion deduced from a logical syllogism depends for its truth on the two premises assumed, and it is the same in mathematics.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  2. “I dispute the availability, and thus the value, of that reason which is cultivated in any especial form other than the abstractly logical.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. This is necessary, if logical considerations shall form the basis of the pure concepts of the understanding.
    — from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
  4. What miserable weakness, what lack of logical courage!
    — from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  5. Moreover, a vein of reason ever ran through her passion: she was logical even when fierce.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  6. It is to face the flaming logical fact, and its frightful consequences.
    — from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
  7. This happiness is a perfectly natural, consistent, logical consequence.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  8. And yet, come to think, it is a logical consequence enough.
    — from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

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