logic
Multiple Entries:logic -logic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
logic/ˈlɒʤɪk/
▶noun
- 1 reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.
■ the quality of being justifiable by reason.
■ (the logic of) the course of action following as a necessary consequence of.
- 2 a system or set of principles underlying the arrangements of elements in a computer or electronic device so as to perform a specified task.
– derivatives
logician noun.
logician noun.
– origin ME: via OFr. logique and late L. logica from Gk logikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of reason’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-logic/ˈlɒʤɪk/
▶combining form equivalent to -logical (as in pharmacologic).
– origin from Gk -logikos.
'logic' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjunction
- affirmative
- alogical
- ALU
- analytic
- antecedent
- a posteriori
- a priori
- arational
- argument
- Aristotelian logic
- assuming
- axiomatize
- bind
- bivalence
- chop
- circular
- conclusion
- conjunct
- conjunctive
- consequent
- contingent
- contradictory
- contraposition
- contrariety
- contrary
- convert
- convertible
- copula
- corollary
- correlation
- correlative
- deduce
- deduction
- dilemma
- disarticulate
- disjunct
- disjunction
- disjunctive
- distribute
- distributive
- elenchus
- empirical
- enthymeme
- equipollent
- equiprobable
- equivalence class
- equivalence relation
- exclude
- exhaustion
