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Noun

logician (plural logicians)

  • A person who studies or teaches logic.
    • ✤ “To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are.” ― “The Greek Interpreter”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894
    • ✤ It is not unknown for a logician to talk about exes and wyes.1
    • ✤ These two treatments of the predicate are typical of the two traditions in traditional logic—the intensional and the extensional traditions. Logicians who can be counted among the intensional logicians are Gottfried Leibniz, Johann Lambert, William Hamilton, Stanley Jevons, and Hugh MacColl. Among the extensional logicians are George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Charles Peirce, and John Venn.2

Etymology

From Middle English logicien, logissian, from Old French logicien. Equivalent to logic +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ləˈd͡ʒɪʃən/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃən

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Footnotes

  1. 1997, John Trotter, System of Rational Discourse, page 22: ↩

  2. 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Function”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ‎, retrieved 15 July 2012: ↩

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