logistician

Other forms: logisticians

Definitions of logistician
  1. noun
    a person skilled at symbolic logic
    synonyms: logician
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    William Stanley Jevons
    English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
    Charles Sanders Peirce
    United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
    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
    English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
    John Venn
    English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923)
    types:
    dialectician
    a logician skilled in dialectic
    syllogiser, syllogist, syllogizer
    logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning
    symbolic logician
    a person skilled at symbolic logic
    type of:
    expert, pundit
    a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
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