logically

logically
logically
especially when placed at the beginning of a sentence as an adverb qualifying the whole of it, often has little to do with the application of logic and simply prepares us for (or beguiles us into accepting) the writer's different point of view:

• Logically, it is the Europeans who are out of step [with respect to time] and not us —Croydon Guardian, 2004.

This statement does not deal with the relation between ideas but contests the assumptions on which the traditional ideas were originally based.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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