logician

English

Alternative forms

• logitian (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈd͡ʒɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

logician (plural logicians)

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

   • 1997, John Trotter, System of Rational Discourse, page 22:

     It is not unknown for a logician to talk about exes and wyes.

   • 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Function”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‎^[1], retrieved 2012-07-15:

     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.

Derived terms

• pseudo-logician

Translations

person who studies or teaches logic

• Arabic: مَنْطِقِيّ (manṭiqiyy)
• Armenian: տրամաբան (hy) (tramaban)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 論理學者／论理学者 (lùnlǐ xuézhě), 邏輯學家／逻辑学家 (zh) (luójí xuéjiā)

• Czech: logik m
• Dutch: logicus (nl) m
• Estonian: loogik
• Finnish: loogikko (fi)
• French: logicien (fr) m, logicienne (fr) f
• German: Logiker m, Logikerin f
• Greek: λογικολόγος (el) m or f (logikológos)
• Japanese: 論理学者 (ronri gakusha)
• Korean: 논리 학자(論理學者) (nolli hakja)
• Macedonian: логичар m (logičar), логичарка f (logičarka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: logiker m

  Nynorsk: logikar m

• Polish: logik (pl) m
• Portuguese: lógico (pt) m
• Romanian: logician (ro) m, logiciană (ro) f
• Russian: ло́гик (ru) m (lógik)
• Serbo-Croatian: lògičār (sh) m, lògičārka (sh) f
• Slovak: logik m, logička f
• Spanish: lógico (es) m, lógica (es) f
• Swedish: logiker (sv)
• Telugu: తార్కికుడు (te) (tārkikuḍu)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French logicien. By surface analysis, logică +‎ -ian.

Noun

logician m (plural logicieni)

1. logician

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	logician	logicianul		logicieni	logicienii
genitive-dative	logician	logicianului		logicieni	logicienilor
vocative	logicianule			logicienilor