logician
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of logician
1350–1400; logic + -ian; replacing Middle English logicien < Middle French
Example Sentences
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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
Named after Cambridge University mathematician and logician John Venn, they first appeared in his book "Symbolic Logic" in 1880.
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
By then we had been joined by Francis’ close friend, the logician George Kreisel, whose unwashed appearance and idiom did not fit into my picture of the English philosopher.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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