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log·ic Listen to audio/ˈlɑ:ʤɪk/ noun
1 a : a proper or reasonable way of thinking about or understanding something [noncount] If you just use a little logic, you'll see I'm right. the rules of logic There's no logic in/to your reasoning. I can't see the logic in always worrying about the future. = Where's the logic in always worrying about the future? There's some logic to/in what he says. She kept the dog, against all logic, after it attacked her. [=her decision to keep the dog was not logical/sensible] Her decision defies logic. [=her decision makes no sense; her decision is not logical] [singular] There's a certain logic in/to what he says.
b [noncount] : a particular way of thinking about something
I could not understand her logic in keeping the dog. [=I could not understand her reason for keeping the dog] I fail to see your logic. = I fail to see the logic behind/of your reasoning. faulty logic
2 [noncount] : the science that studies the formal processes used in thinking and reasoning
a professor of logicsee also fuzzy logic
3 [noncount] : the way facts or events follow or relate to each other
The revolution proceeded according to its own logic. the logic of the situation
4 [noncount] technical : the arrangement of circuits in a computer

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