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Definition of Logical thinking
1. Noun. Thinking that is coherent and logical.
Generic synonyms: Cerebration, Intellection, Mentation, Thinking, Thought, Thought Process
Specialized synonyms: Analysis, Analytic Thinking, Argument, Argumentation, Line, Line Of Reasoning, Logical Argument, Conjecture, Deduction, Deductive Reasoning, Synthesis, Illation, Inference, Anticipation, Prediction, Prevision, Ratiocination, Reasoning Backward, Regress, Synthesis, Synthetic Thinking
Derivative terms: Reason
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logical Thinking
Literary usage of Logical thinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"logical thinking, so-called, that of the conscious. ... All thinking is symbolic,
but ordinary logical thinking proceeds along conventionalized and ..."
2. The Learning Process by Stephen Sheldon Colvin (1911)
"CHAPTER XX THE HIGHER THOUGHT PROCESSES — logical thinking THE term " thought "
is used in popular language in a loose and indefinite sense. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"Where the balance between affectivity and logical thinking is upset, ...
Autistic thinking may be just as conscious as logical thinking however, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"Where the balance between affectivity and logical thinking is upset, ...
Autistic thinking may be just as conscious as logical thinking however, ..."
5. Habit and Its Importance in Education: An Essay in Pedagogical Psychology by Paul Radestock (1886)
"PROCESS OF logical thinking. — CONCEPTION SERIES. ... logical thinking likewise
creates nothing absolutely new, but it allows the acquired material to ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Not, says Wundt, by association, as Hume said, but by thinking; not, however, by
a priori thinking, as Kant said, but by logical thinking, by applying the ..."
7. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"In the former departments of the present treatise, we have aimed to develop those
laws of thought to which all valid logical thinking must conform. ..."
8. Elementary Education: Its Problems and Processes by John Alexander Hull Keith (1905)
"D. logical thinking and systematization. In all of the child's causal thinking
the real nature, or essence, of force eludes him. Force is known only through ..."
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