logicize

American  

[loj-uh-sahyz] / ˈlɒdʒ əˌsaɪz /

especially British, logicise

verb (used with object)

logicized, logicizing

1. to make logical; give logical form to.

   to logicize a sequence of events.

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verb (used without object)

logicized, logicizing

1. to employ logic.

   One could not logicize about such an occurence.

Etymology

Origin of logicize

First recorded in 1825–35; logic + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

logicize logicized logicizing

It was the long endeavor to logicize what we can only realize practically or in immediate experience.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

But, from the standpoint of a completely logicized experience, all finite, temporal processes are accidents, not essentials, of logical operations.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Efforts to heal the breach without a direct appeal to metaphysical agencies have been made by attempting a complete logicizing of all operations.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

As we have already seen, this attempt at a complete logicizing of all conduct is forced at once to introduce the distinction of "explicit" and "implicit," of "conscious and unconscious" or "subconscious" logic.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Intellect is not speaking and logicizing: it is seeing and ascertaining.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt