L' Estrange.
Loggerheaded
(Log"ger*head`ed), a. Dull; stupid. Shak.
A rabble of loggerheaded physicians.
Urquhart. Loggerheads
(Log"ger*heads`) n. (Bot.) The knapweed.
Loggia
(||Log"gia) n. [It. See Lodge.] (Arch.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being
more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from
a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.
Logging
(Log"ging) n. The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to
sawmills or to market.
Logic
(Log"ic) n. [OE. logike, F. logique, L. logica, logice, Gr. logikh` fr. logiko`s belonging to speaking
or reason, fr. lo`gos speech, reason, le`gein to say, speak. See Legend.]
1. The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to
which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application
of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic
arrangement; correct reasoning.
Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought,
considered in itself, is subject.
Sir W. Hamilton. Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. "Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws,
of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those
objects about which men do think." Abp. Thomson.
2. A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.
Logical
(Log"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. logique, L. logicus, Gr. logiko`s.]
1. Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.
2. According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical. Prior.
3. Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.