LOGICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logical mean? 

• LOGICAL (adjective)
  The adjective LOGICAL has 4 senses:

1. capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning

2. based on known statements or events or conditions

3. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts

4. capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

  Familiarity information: LOGICAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning

Context example:

a logical mind

Similar:

dianoetic; discursive (proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition)

formal (logically deductive)

ratiocinative (based on exact thinking)

Also:

analytic; analytical (of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience)

synthetic; synthetical (of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts)

coherent; consistent; logical; ordered (marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts)

rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)

reasonable; sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)

Attribute:

logicality; logicalness (correct and valid reasoning)

Antonym:

illogical (lacking in correct logical relation)

Derivation:

logicality; logicalness (correct and valid reasoning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Based on known statements or events or conditions

Synonyms:

legitimate; logical

Context example:

rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year

Similar:

valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)

Derivation:

logicality; logicalness (correct and valid reasoning)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts

Synonyms:

coherent; consistent; logical; ordered

Context example:

a coherent argument

Similar:

seamless (perfectly consistent and coherent)

Also:

logical (capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning)

rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

Synonyms:

coherent; logical; lucid

Context example:

she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident

Similar:

rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)

Derivation:

logicalness (correct and valid reasoning)

 Context examples 

The procedure or activity of determining something by mathematical or logical methods.

(Calculation, NCI Thesaurus)

The logical starting point was to begin with the two gases most plentiful in Titan’s atmosphere: nitrogen and methane.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The logical, mathematical, and/or other operations specifying derivation.

(Derivation Rule, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of coded instructions, which a computer follows in processing data, performing an operation, or solving a logical problem, upon execution of the program.

(Computer Program, NCI Thesaurus)

It would be difficult to say: I could not then distinctly say it to myself; yet I had a reason, and a logical, natural reason too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

NOTE(S): A criterion group represents the parentheses around a set of criteria in a logical expression.

(Defined Criterion Group, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The process by which conclusions are derived from stated facts by the application of logical rules.

(Inference, NCI Thesaurus)

The study of numbers, shapes, patterns, and logical reasoning.

(Mathematics, NCI Thesaurus)

What you say is perfectly logical, Mr. Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Exactly so!” said Mrs. Micawber, preserving the same logical air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)