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logicians

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for logicians.

Editorial note

As spacehome points out, that advice is a logical contradiction (and therefore not particularly suitable for logicians).

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Quick take

A person who studies or teaches logic.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of logicians gathered in one view.

noun

A person who studies or teaches logic.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for logicians.

noun

A person who studies or teaches logic.

Example sentences

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As spacehome points out, that advice is a logical contradiction (and therefore not particularly suitable for logicians).

2

If we are being charitable by everyone he means mathematicians, and perhaps logicians, maybe even philosophers, I still think it's quite a broad statement.

3

However, post-Roman Christians were keen logicians and experimenters who laid the foundation of the modern sciences.

4

The framers were not logicians and the Constitution was not an exercise in formal consistency.

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That's what turned the department around and finally pushed the logicians into the background.

6

Physicists seem very hand-wavey to mathematicians, and mathematicians seem very hand-wavey to logicians.

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My preferred way to view it is as logicians studying a really fascinating new logical system and seeing how far they can push it.

8

Strong algebraic geometers are not necessarily strong analysts or algebraists or logicians.

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I like this puzzle because it's the same train of thought as this old joke: Three logicians walk into a bar.

10

So I don't think there is any sharp distinction between programming and what logicians do.

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It's generally left to logicians and philosophers of mathematics (two tribes which, while not coextensional, have a rather large intersection) to worry about these things.

12

I went through Stanford CS when the top-down logicians were in charge of AI.

Quote examples

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The point is that "correct usage" is not defined by logicians or etymologists or any kind of authority, but by society as a whole, and therefore has no one exact definition.

2

The logicians were in denial about this for a long time, which resulted in the "AI winter" from 1985 to 2000 or so.

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Actually the recent movement of "Homotopy Type Theory" is gaining some traction among non-logicians, giving easier formulations and proofs in category theory and topology.

4

"Functor" was appropriated from an established term that was in use by logicians and linguists.

Proper noun examples

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And it's not at all uncommon for a Mathematics department to have exactly zero Logicians.

2

Logicians like Turing, Church, and Gödel gave us computers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use logicians in a sentence?

As spacehome points out, that advice is a logical contradiction (and therefore not particularly suitable for logicians).

What does logicians mean?

A person who studies or teaches logic.

What part of speech is logicians?

logicians is commonly used as noun.