LOGICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logician mean? 

• LOGICIAN (noun)
  The noun LOGICIAN has 1 sense:

1. a person skilled at symbolic logic

  Familiarity information: LOGICIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person skilled at symbolic logic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

logician; logistician

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)

 Context examples 

Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognise him.

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

To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.

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