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logicize, v.|ˈlɒdʒɪsaɪz| [f. logic or L. logic-us + -ize.] 1. intr. To use logical argument, employ logic.
1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 525 Soc. Hast thou, tell me, the spirit of Logic within ye? Strep. I can't logicize—no—but I'll pilfer with any. 1844H. P. Tappan Elem. Logic Pref. 5 Reason..is the faculty which reasons or logicizes. 2. trans. To turn into logic. (See also quot. 1919.)
1865J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. 200 Take Hegel's widest..division of Logic, Nature, Spirit: the last subsumes the second under the first; Spirit logicises Nature. a1910W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xv. 393 All these tricks for logicizing originality, self-relation, absolute process, subjective contradiction, will wither in the breath of the mystical fact. 1919B. Russell Introd. Math. Philos. i. 7 Frege, who first succeeded in ‘logicising’ mathematics, i.e. in reducing to logic the arithmetical notions which his predecessors had shown to be sufficient for mathematics. Hence ˈlogicized ppl. a., ˈlogicizing vbl. n.
1840Carlyle Heroes vi. (1858) 348 Intellect is not speaking and logicising: it is seeing and ascertaining. 1924C. K. Ogden tr. Vaihinger's Philos. of ‘As If’ iii. iv. 360 This creating, logicizing, arranging, falsifying, is the best guaranteed reality. 1937[see arithmetize v. 2 a]. 1957J. Passmore 100 Yrs. Philos. vi. 149 It is in the writings of G. Frege that the fundamental problems of a logicised mathematics first clearly emerged. |