logic

Forms

1.The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
2.The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
3.A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
4.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.

1.To apply logical reasoning to.
- He logicked that one out. He snuck into Haiti and scored herbs to rev him and calm him.
2.To overcome by logical argument.
- If things had gone as usual this night, if Kit had not logicked her into agreement, then she probably would have opened the door tonight.
3.To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
- Nay, is not the author himself "logicking" against logic, from the beginning of his book to the end ?

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From Middle English logike, from Old French and Latin logicus, from Ancient Greek λογῐκός (logĭkós).

Displaced native Old English flitcræftlīċ.