Dictionary

logician en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ləˈd͡ʒɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English logicien, logissian, from Old French logicien. Equivalent to logic + -ian.

Meanings

1. A person who studies or teaches logic.
   • “To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are.” ― “The Greek Interpreter”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894
   • These two treatments of the predicate are typical of the two traditions in traditional logic—the intensional and the extensional traditions. Logicians who can be counted among the intensional logicians are Gottfried Leibniz, Johann Lambert, William Hamilton, Stanley Jevons, and Hugh MacColl. Among the extensional logicians are George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Charles Peirce, and John Venn. 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Function”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
   • It is not unknown for a logician to talk about exes and wyes. 1997, John Trotter, System of Rational Discourse, page 22:

Forms

Deriveds

paralogician · pseudo-logician · metalogician

Translations (34)

mk логичар (person who studies or teaches logic) · pt lógico (person who studies or teaches logic) · ko 논리 학자 (person who studies or teaches logic) · ar مَنْطِقِيّ (person who studies or teaches logic) · de Logiker (person who studies or teaches logic) · nl logicus (person who studies or teaches logic) · fr logicienne (person who studies or teaches logic) · hy տրամաբան (person who studies or teaches logic) · ro logiciană (person who studies or teaches logic) · sh lògičār (person who studies or teaches logic) · ro logician (person who studies or teaches logic) · hi तार्किक (person who studies or teaches logic) · sh lògičārka (person who studies or teaches logic) · cs logik (person who studies or teaches logic) · fr logicien (person who studies or teaches logic) · ja 論理学者 (person who studies or teaches logic) · ru ло́гик (person who studies or teaches logic) · et loogik (person who studies or teaches logic) · pl logiczka (person who studies or teaches logic) · mk логичарка (person who studies or teaches logic) · sk logička (person who studies or teaches logic) · nb logiker (person who studies or teaches logic) · cmn 論理學者 /论理学者 (person who studies or teaches logic) · nn logikar (person who studies or teaches logic) · pl logik (person who studies or teaches logic) · fi loogikko (person who studies or teaches logic) · de Logikerin (person who studies or teaches logic) · te తార్కికుడు (person who studies or teaches logic) · sv logiker (person who studies or teaches logic) · el λογικολόγος (person who studies or teaches logic) · es lógico (person who studies or teaches logic) · es lógica (person who studies or teaches logic) · cmn 邏輯學家 /逻辑学家 (person who studies or teaches logic) · sk logik (person who studies or teaches logic)