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

Word History and Origins

Origin of logician¹

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

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.

From Salon

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

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Scientific American

“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