English > logistician: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person skilled at symbolic logic. |
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| Synonym | logician |
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| Instances | Jevons, William Stanley Jevons | English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882) |
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| Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce | United States philosopher and logician |
| Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine | United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001) |
| Russell, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell | English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970) |
| Venn, John Venn | English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923) |
| Narrower | dialectician | A logician skilled in dialectic |
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| syllogist, syllogizer, syllogiser | logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning |
| symbolic logician | A person skilled at symbolic logic |
| Broader | expert | A person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully |
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| Spanish | lógico |
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| Catalan | lògic |
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| Nouns | logic | the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
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| logic | a system of reasoning |
