logician

American  

[loh-jish-uhn] / loʊˈdʒɪʃ ən /

noun

1. a person who is skilled in logic.

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logician British  

/ lɒˈdʒɪʃən /

noun

1. a person who specializes in or is skilled at logic

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Etymology

Origin of logician

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

Example Sentences

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

Also Fyodor, employed at a meatpacking plant and probably ill-fatedly dating a vegetarian and logician, Timo, who is opposed to the slaughter of animals but supports the death penalty for mass shooters.

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

The first person to do this sort of trick—adding infinite terms to get a finite result—was the fourteenth-century British logician Richard Suiseth.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife