What is another word for logician?

Pronunciation: [ləd͡ʒˈɪʃən] (IPA)

A logician is a person who is skilled in the use of logic and reasoning. It is not surprising that there are several synonyms that can be used to describe such a person. One of them is a rationalist. This term refers to someone who believes in the power of reason and logical thinking. Another synonym is a philosopher. This term is more general but can still be used to refer to individuals who are skilled at logic and reasoning. A third synonym is a dialectician. This term is more specific and refers to someone who is skilled at arguing or debating using logical reasoning. Ultimately, regardless of the synonym used, these individuals are skilled in using their intellect to solve complex problems.

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Usage examples for Logician

I endeavoured to get a more particular account of him from my companion, but he seemed unwilling even to talk about him, answering only in general terms, that he was "a cursed busy fellow, that had a confounded trick of talking, and was apt to bother one about the national debt, and such nonsense;" from which I suspected that Master Simon had been rendered wary of him by some accidental encounter on the field of argument; for these radicals are continually roving about in quest of wordy warfare, and never so happy as when they can tilt a gentleman logician out of his saddle.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It is active and passive, object and subject, ego and non ego-every kind of Irish bull, in fact, which a sound logician abhors-and it is only because it has persevered, as I said in "Life and Habit," in thus defying logic and arguing most virtuously in a most vicious circle, that it has come in the persons of some of its descendants to reason with sufficient soundness.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
They were crude and superficial and would at any other time have provoked a contradiction from our friend who was a sharp and keen logician.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse

Famous quotes with Logician

  • There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
    John Astin
  • Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
    Pierre Bourdieu
  • From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
  • Logic is in the eye of the logician.
    Gloria Steinem

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