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View synonyms for logician

logician

[ loh-jish-uhn ]

noun

  1. a person who is skilled in logic.


logician

/ lɒˈdʒɪʃən /

noun

  1. a person who specializes in or is skilled at logic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of logician1

1350–1400; logic + -ian; replacing Middle English logicien < Middle French
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Example Sentences

Perhaps if he spent more time studying and less time bashing students, he would know that this is what logicians call a false dichotomy.

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Named after Cambridge University mathematician and logician John Venn, they first appeared in his book "Symbolic Logic" in 1880.

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It’s often been said, given Scott’s skills as a superb visual craftsman and cinematic logician, that he’s only ever as good as his material — a reductive formulation that happens to be true in this instance.

Some logicians find the principle of explosion so disturbing that they propose altering the rules of logic into a so-called paraconsistent logic, specifically designed to invalidate the arguments we’ve seen above.

“Euclid famously starts with ‘definitions’ that are almost poetic,” Jeremy Avigad, a logician at Carnegie Mellon University, said in an email.

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