logistician
(lɒdʒɪˈstɪʃən)
[f. logistic a. + -ian.]
One skilled in logic or logistics.
| 1932 Mind XLI. 433 Logisticians are the last persons who should quarrel with a notational convention whereby a syllogistic ‘calculus’ can be simplified. 1936 Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning (ed. 4) v. 95 Logisticians will only be logical when they admit that universals are an analogous convenience. 1937 Mind XLVI. 244 Prof. Scholz, who is editing the series of logistical studies to which this work belongs, has the rare distinction of being both an accomplished logistician and an erudite philosophical scholar. 1966 W. V. Quine Ways of Paradox viii. 65 Such conformity was the logistician's objective when he codified quantification. |