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LOGISTICIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person skilled at symbolic logic
Synonyms:
logician; logistician
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("logistician" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logistician"):
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)
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