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START / NODE 50Present-Day English12th century–today
logic
The discipline and practice of valid reasoning, inherited through French and Latin from a Greek family of word, account, speech, and reason.
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Present-Day Englishlogic
the study or use of valid reasoning
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Middle English · Middle Englishlogikthe science of reasoning
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- Middle English final consonant and vowel pattern stabilized as modern logic with later pronunciation change.
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- The technical discipline broadened into everyday “reasoning” and, later, computational circuitry.
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