logic

Meanings

Adjective

• logical

Noun

• A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
• The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
• The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
• A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
• Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
• The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.

Verb

• To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
• To apply logical reasoning to.
• To overcome by logical argument.

Related

Similar words

• formal logic, modern logic
• formal system
• (philosophy): predicate logic

Origin

• From Middle English logike, from Old French and Latin logicus, from Ancient Greek λογῐκός.
• From Middle English logik, from Old French logike, from Latin logica, from Ancient Greek λογική ("logic"), from feminine of λογικός, from λόγος. Displaced native .