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LOGICIAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A person skilled at symbolic logic

Synonyms:

logician; logistician

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("logician" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logician"):

dialectician (a logician skilled in dialectic)

syllogiser; syllogist; syllogizer (logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning)

symbolic logician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)

Instance hyponyms:

Jevons; William Stanley Jevons (English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882))

Charles Peirce; Charles Sanders Peirce; Peirce (United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914))

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))

Bertrand Arthur William Russell; Bertrand Russell; Earl Russell; Russell (English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970))

John Venn; Venn (English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923))

Derivation:

logic (a system of reasoning)

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

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