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A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.

middle term a universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

wel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

ords, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

ch we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment. Stewart.

; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt. "If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him." Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a…

more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians. Macaulay.

rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.

To debate peevishly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. I. Watts.

niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult o…

l; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.