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logicist, n. and a.|ˈlɒdʒɪsɪst|
[f. logic n. + -ist.]
a. n. A (formal) logician; a mathematician who uses the methods or accepts the theory of logicism.
b. adj. Of or pertaining to logicism. Also occas. logiˈcistic a.
a1910W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) v. 82 Hibben and the logicists seem to believe that conception, if only adequately attained to, might be all-sufficient. 1916J. Dewey Ess. Exper. Logic 65, I am not questioning the right of the physicist, the mathematician, or the symbolic logicist to go ahead with accepted objects and do what he can with them. 1937A. Smeaton tr. Carnap's Logical Syntax of Lang. v. §84. 326 The sentence..can be derived with the help of the logicist system. 1952S. C. Kleene Introd. Metamath. i. iii. 44 The logicistic definition of natural number now becomes predicative. 1956E. M. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics vi. 231 Our understanding of what statistical inference can do is obscured..by the logicist scheme of taking all hypotheses as universal implications, e.g. (x) (fx⊃gx). 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 109/3 In the ‘new math’ the logicist theory that natural numbers are derived from the quantification of classes was at last put into educational practice. |