logicistn.adj.
/ˈlɒdʒɪsɪst/ A. n.
A (formal) logician; a mathematician who uses the methods or accepts the theory of logicism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > mathematical or symbolic logic > adherent of
mathematical logician1851
symbolic logician1903
logicista1910
logistician1932
a1910 W. 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.
1916 J. 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.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to logicism.
ΚΠ
1937 A. Smeaton tr. R. Carnap Logical Syntax Lang. v. §84. 326 The sentence..can be derived with the help of the logicist system.
1956 E. H. 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).
1973 Sci. 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.
Derivatives
logiˈcistic adj.
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1952 S. C. Kleene Introd. Metamath. i. iii. 44 The logicistic definition of natural number now becomes predicative.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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