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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

The Turing test is named for computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher Alan Turing.

Then a loud voice silenced us all, and Joe Pidgeon, our great logician, began to hold forth.

What kind of logician must he be who thinks that a phenomenon is defined to be the condition on which he supposes it to depend?

But, viewed with regard to this purpose, they have never been considered as within the province of the logician.

A logician adds two and two and gets four; an intuitionist multiplies them and gets the same answer.

The black skin might—for anything a mere logician can say—indicate the mind of a chimpanzee.

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