logician
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- noun
- /ləˈdʒɪʃən/
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lógico
- The lecture on logic was given by a renowned logician who explained complex concepts clearly.
- logician and philosopher
Spock did that sometimes too, where he would become more like a an impulsive wild animal than a rigidly controlled logician.
- Spock did that sometimes too, where he would become more like a an impulsive wild animal than a rigidly controlled logician.
- Named after the mediaeval logician William of Occam, Occam's Razor is a general rule by which we select among competing explanations.
- He's one of the world's great early logicians, mathematics, alchemy and also medicine.
Examples
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Such suspicious mental habits violate the logician's injunction against ad hominem arguments.
Academic text (1996) -
A logician often analyzes arguments to determine their validity.
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"The best the logician can do is to recommend gathering more data."
Blog text (13) -
Now, I think of you, I know you're a logician, obviously you also do some creative writing.
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By temperament and training, he is himself a fine logician.
Fiction book (1992) -
He's also the most important logician since Aristotle.
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Thus, Weiner, working as a sculptor, uses the tools of the grammarian, the mathematician, and the logician, making all of them function together.
Academic text (1999) -
The quest or tendency of philosophers (logicians) has been to account for how we do these things in terms of facts (information) and some rules.
Academic text (2016) -
Critically, Bea is an expert logician, so anything we've figured out like that, Wrath and Greed, are off the table.
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The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the logician and photographer and lesser-known mirror image of Lewis Carroll, first met Alice Liddell when she was three.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
A person who studies formal rules of reasoning using signs
A person who studies or uses strict rules of thinking
Compounds
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Etymology
Logician comes from the Greek root logos, which means 'reason' or 'word' and is the same root behind logic. So a logician is someone who studies how to think clearly and check arguments.