logician

American  

[loh-jish-uhn] / loʊˈdʒɪʃ ən /

noun

1. a person who is skilled in logic.

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logician British  

/ lɒˈdʒɪʃən /

noun

1. a person who specializes in or is skilled at logic

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Etymology

Origin of logician

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

Example Sentences

More successfully, in the 19th century, George Boole—mathematician, logician, theoretical psychologist—“fundamentally changed our understanding of logic,” Mr. Griffiths tells us, by “showing how reason could be captured by a formal system.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

As Bessent should understand, the violation of one logical condition can obviate the logic of another—what a logician might call an “antecedent condition.”

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Any logician will tell you that there is a lot to love about Venn diagrams, but what does Vice President Harris’ love of them tell us about her?

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

But English is more flexible than what a logician would have designed, and the context generally makes it clear what the speaker means.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker