Logic | Mean of logic in English Dictionary

/ˈlɑːʤɪk/

• Noun
• a proper or reasonable way of thinking about or understanding something
1. If you just use a little logic, you'll see I'm right.
2. the rules of logic
3. There's no logic in/to your reasoning.
4. I can't see the logic in always worrying about the future. = Where's the logic in always worrying about the future?
5. There's some logic to/in what he says.
6. She kept the dog, against all logic, after it attacked her. [=her decision to keep the dog was not logical/sensible]
7. Her decision defies logic. [=her decision makes no sense; her decision is not logical]
8. There's a certain logic in/to what he says.
• a particular way of thinking about something
1. I could not understand her logic in keeping the dog. [=I could not understand her reason for keeping the dog]
2. I fail to see your logic. = I fail to see the logic behind/of your reasoning.
3. faulty logic
• the science that studies the formal processes used in thinking and reasoning
1. a professor of logic

• the way facts or events follow or relate to each other
1. The revolution proceeded according to its own logic.
2. the logic of the situation
• the arrangement of circuits in a computer