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

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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