19 adjectives to describe logician

Baxter, like most scholastic logicians, had a sneaking affection for puns.

=118.= CALHOUN CHARACTERIZED John Caldwell Calhoun was the same slender, erect, and ardent logician, politician, and sectarian, in the House of Representatives in 1814 that he is in the Senate of 1847.

" Nor were the sympathies of this clever logician confined to the slaves.

Mr. Pitt's reputation is much sunk; nor, though he is a much more correct logician than his father, has he the same firmness and perseverance.

In mediis tutissimus ibis, is not indeed an agreeable maxim to zealots and partisans and dialectical logicians, but it seems to be induced from the varied experiences of human life and the history of different ages and nations, and applies to all the mixed sciences, like government and political economy, as well as to church institutions.

Some old-fashioned logician might perhaps whisper to himself, "Praemissis particularibus nihil probatur," but such a remark, now that Aldrich is out of date, would only excite a pitying smile.

200 The grim logician puts them in a fright; 'Tis easier far to flourish than to fight.

The argument was enough for our little logician.

Now it is these human allies and servants of Satan, thus postulated into existence by the brain of a monkish logician, whom history knows as witches."

Indeed, when we read his language (Appendix to 'Lectures on Logic,' pp. 291297) censuring generally the prior logicians from Aristotle downwards, and contending that 'more than half the value of logic had been lost' by their manner of handling itwe may appreciate the magnitude of the reform which he believed himself to be introducing.

He was a man of power, a profound logician, with great facility in conveying ideas.

After this I proceeded to allude to the history of the doctrine among the Hebrews, and quoted some texts of the Psalms, the argument of which, I urged, is utterly inappreciable to the pure logician, "because it is spiritually discerned."

"In respect," responded the royal logician, "that thy head is conjoined to thy shoulders, it is thine; but in respect that it is purple, it is mine,

Here is a man posing before the gaping millions as a philosopher and a severe logician, who thinks that the proposition, "every cow is a quadruped," is disproved by the evident falsehood of, "what is not a cow is not a quadruped," which he calls "the converse."

A dangerous polemist because of his ambuscades, a shrewd logician, executing flanking movements and attacking unexpectedly, the Comte de Falloux had also written striking, penetrating pages on the death of Madame Swetchine, whose tracts he had collected and whom he revered as a saint.

He is a skilful logician, not by nature so much as use; his working mind doth nothing all his time but make syllogisms and draw out conclusions; everything that he sees and hears serves for one of the premisses; with these he cares first to inform himself, then to direct others.

Strict logicians are licensed visionaries.

His mind (so to speak) had no religion in it, and very little even of the moral qualities of genius; but he was a man of the world, a scholar bred, and a most acute and powerful logician.

However, the being told, in a multitude of ingenious forms, that I am a wretched logician, is not likely to raffle my tranquillity.

19 adjectives to describe  logician