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Definition of Logicist
1. one who practices logic [n -S] - See also: logic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logicist
Literary usage of Logicist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"Later he became a 'logicist,' but a logicist of the dialectic stripe, connected
through Herbart and Fichte with Plato. Brentano was never anything but ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1908)
"... postulation has a free hand ; and who is to say how much or how little of the
1 It is interesting that the extreme metaphysical or " logicist " writers. ..."
3. Genetic Theory of Reality: Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in by James Mark Baldwin (1915)
"The issue is fruitfully joined between the metaphysical, "logicist," and Hegelian
conceptions, on the one hand, and the empirical genetic, on the other. ..."
4. Essays in Experimental Logic by John Dewey (1916)
"I am making no appeal for skepti- I cism at large; l am not questioning the right
of the physicist, the mathematician, or the symbolic logicist J to go ..."
5. Ideals of Science & Faith by James Edward Hand (1904)
"... logicist" would be preferable in order to avoid confusion with the professed
logician, who is usually a philosopher strayed into the camp of the ..."
6. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"... apply across paradigms, ensures that the relativistic alternative is not
regarded as the logical alternative to the traditional logicist interpretation. ..."
7. Mirabeau: A Life-history, in Four Books by John Stores Smith (1848)
"... always with an eye to the revenue and population tables: an intricate machine
worked by some cunning, little logicist; such a course of study could, ..."
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