(n.) One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most Tories think “dialecticians” are the people you phone when the fuses blow.
Logician
Definition:
(n.) A person skilled in logic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking from DeepMind’s headquarters near King’s Cross station in London, in a conference room named after pioneering logician Kurt Gödel, Hassabis explained that for his company, winning the match isn’t the most important thing.
(2) The Times obituary, which appeared on the same day, noted Turing was a mathematician and logician who had branched into "the design and use of automatic computing machines".
(3) The quantitative assessment carried out by 32 psychiatrists on a rating scale for logical thinking disorders (nine items, six points) of the retranscribed clinical interview showed 1. that the assessments varied in a statistically significant way according to items and psychiatrists, and that these variations were independent of their degree of experience--the correlations between the different items of the rating scale proved to be weak and not significantly different from zero; and 2. the study of the most contradictory statements carried out by a logician using reasoning analysis procedures concluded that there were in fact logical relationships between the subjects the schizophrenic talked about.