say it: LAH-jik
logic is a noun meaning "the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
“economic logic requires it”
“by the logic of war”
the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
computer science
a system of reasoning
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for logic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.