| 单词 | logician |
| 释义 | logician (once / 6813 pages) n Logic is the science of reasoning and relationships between ideas. An expert in logic is a logician. Dr. Spock, a Star Trek character, is the ultimate logician — when asked why not, he answers, "Because it isn't logical." A logician examines statements to decide whether they are true and is active in the fields of math and computer science. A very simple example of what a logician does can be given with the word or. What exactly does it mean if you say "A or B?" A logician would say that it can mean: 1. A but not B, 2. B but not A, or 3. A and B (this sounds weird but in logic this is true). Or, however, does not mean "not A and not B." Logicians usually deal with much more complex ideas and statements than this. WORD FAMILYlogician: logicians+/illogic: illogics/illogical: illogicality, illogically, illogicalness/illogicality: illogicalities/logic: illogic, logical, logician, logicism, logics, logistician/logical: illogical, logicality, logically, logicalness, unlogical/logistician: logisticians USAGE EXAMPLESThe role of chilly logician and second in command is instead taken by “Number One,” a character played by actress Majel Barrett. Salon(Sep 07, 2016) One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in...(2003) One went to the Austrian-born mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. The New Yorker(Jun 29, 2016) n a person skilled at symbolic logic Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper logistician William Stanley Jevons English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882) Charles Sanders PeirceUnited States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914) Willard Van Orman QuineUnited States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001) Bertrand Arthur William RussellEnglish philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970) John VennEnglish logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923) dialectician a logician skilled in dialectic syllogiser, syllogist, syllogizerlogician skilled in syllogistic reasoning symbolic logiciana person skilled at symbolic logic expert a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully |
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