Logician
21symbolic logician — noun a person skilled at symbolic logic • Hypernyms: ↑logician, ↑logistician …
22fuzzy logician — fuzzy logic, a form of logic which tries to take into account ill defined or vague terms such as “very,” “somewhat,” and “mostly”: »Fuzzy logic…avoids the abrupt changes that might result from the either or, all or nothing judgments inherent in… …
23Johan van Benthem (logician) — Johannes Franciscus Abraham Karel (Johan) van Benthem (born June 12 1949, Rijswijk) is a University Professor ( universiteitshoogleraar ) of logic at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and professor… …
24William Craig (logician) — William Craig (born 1918) is Emeritus professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. His interests include mathematical logic, and philosophy of science. He is mostly known for the Craig interpolation… …
25Semiotic elements and classes of signs (Peirce) — Logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) began writing on semeiotic, semiotics, or the theory of sign relations in the 1860s, around the time that he devised his system of three categories. He… …
26JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY — logician and political economist, born in Liverpool; in 1866 was professor of Logic of Owens College, Manchester, and 10 years later professor of Political Economy in University College, London; distinguished himself in the departments of both …
27MILL, JOHN STUART — logician and economist, born in London, son of the preceding; was educated pedantically by his father; began to learn Greek at 3, could read it and Latin at 14, never was a boy, he says, and was debarred from all imaginative literature, so… …
28logic, history of — Introduction the history of the discipline from its origins among the ancient Greeks to the present time. Origins of logic in the West Precursors of ancient logic There was a medieval tradition according to which the Greek philosopher …
29metalogic — /met euh loj ik/, n. the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic. [1835 45; META + LOGIC] * * * Study of the syntax and the semantics of formal languages and formal systems. It is related to, but does not include, the formal… …
30logic, philosophy of — Philosophical study of the nature and scope of logic. Examples of questions raised in the philosophy of logic are: In virtue of what features of reality are the laws of logic true? ; How do we know the truths of logic? ; and Could the laws of… …
