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- noun Plural form of
logician .
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Examples
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Drew some rather, shall we say, ambitious conclusions from that tautology — though logicians may quibble about some technical flaws in the argument.
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According to one of the best logicians of all times, Johannes Duns Scotus, yes.
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The mathematical logic is well-known to mathematical logicians, but cosmologists appear to be largely oblivious of it.
Mathematical logic and multiverses Gordon McCabe 2009
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I didn't know logicians had a name for it, but they do: it's called the Argument from Silence.
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yet when scientistsor logicians claim to have cleared up any particular mystery, there isalways a sleight of hand.
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The first was Logicomix: And Epic Search for Truth, a historical graphic novel about Bertrand Russell and other logicians in his era.
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There are no strong candidates for what logicians call sufficient conditions — a single factor that would have caused the crisis in the absence of any others.
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But although they were skilled mathematicians and logicians, the women were classified as "sub-professionals" presumably due to their gender and as a cost-saving device, and never got the credit due to them for their groundbreaking work.
Invisible Computers Peggy 2008
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For a thousand years a rigorous discussiosdsfdwn carried out by our best logicians and theologians and by metaphysical philosophers like Descartes concerning question like justice i.e. "What is the will of God?"
Kog Zadare, only living person... Kog Zadare 2010
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I suspect that logicians have found some way around this mind-bender.
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