1810 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 383Bishops, liturgies ,..were,..with celestial patents, wrapped up in the womb of this or that text of Scripture to be exforcipated by the logico-obstetric skill of High Church doctors. [ etc.]
1858 A. De Morgan On Syllogism (1966) 89,I distinguish the two sides of logic as the logico-mathematical and the logico-metaphysical, frequently dropping the prefix logico.
1898 J. A. Hobson John Ruskin xiii. 319No one..more subtly practised the vital as distinguished from the logico-mechanical method of teaching.
c1905 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1933) IV. i. ix. 274Dr. Georg Cantor, the great founder and Hauptförderer of the logico-mathematical doctrine of numbers.
1918 C. I. Lewis Survey Symbolic Logic p. v,Treatises..bristling with logico-metaphysical difficulties.
1922 D. Ainslie tr. Croce's Aesthetic (ed. 2) ii. v. 229The same criticism..must have extended to the logico-grammarians of Port-Royal.
1930 T. Sasaki OnLang. R. Bridges' Poetry 3The following different lines of approach are possible: (1) Logico-psychological . [ etc.]
1931 J. Wisdom Interpretation & Analysis 13The logico-analytic philosophers are constantly asking questions such as ‘What does ‘This is a chair’ mean?’
1935 Mind XLV. 263 It is only from a footnote that we learn that Pareto had realized the importance (and difficulty) of the ‘theorem’ that ‘the logico-experimental truth of a theory and its social utility are independent’.
1937 Mind XLVI. 253 This book should prove stimulating to scientists, methodologists, and philosophers of all kinds, speculative, critical, or logico-positivist.
1938 C. Morris Found. Theory of Signs §5. 92The logico-grammatical structure of language.
1940 W. V. Quine Math. Logic 127The atomic formulae formed by flanking ‘{elem}’ with variables happen merely to be the ones appropriate to logico-mathematical matters.
1943 H. Read Educ. through Art iii. 70What is now suggested, in opposition to the whole of the logico-rationalistic tradition, is that there exists a concrete visual mode of ‘thinking’.
1946 Mind LV. 44 It refers only to a very small group of Logico-Analytic philosophers.
1949 Mind LVIII. 397 The latest logico-analysts avowedly make use of utterances that are as NonSensical as those of the metaphysician.
1951 Mind LX. 24 The Logico-positivist proposes not to speak of ‘inference’.
1952 Mind LXI. 574 The great logico-philosophical revolution of the last half century, initiated by Frege and Russell.
1958 W. Stark Sociol. ofKnowl. ii. viii. 320If we study social reality as all reality should be studied, namely ‘logico-experimentally’, i.e. truly scientifically, we find..that human action is controlled by a set of drives.
1958 Listener 27 Nov. 879/1 The kind of thinking which I have called metaphysical thinking can lead to positive achievements, where both the system-philosophies and logico-linguistic investigations fail.
1970 J. N. Findlay tr. Husserl's Logical Investigations II. vi. viii. 826The purely logico-grammatical laws which, as laws of complication and modification, distinguish the spheres of sense and nonsense.
1971 P. F. Strawson ( title)Logico-linguistic papers.
ORIGIN: from logic , logic(al adjective : see -o- .
log·i·co-
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Etymology: logical
: logical : logical and
< logicomathematical >
< logicomathematical >
logico-
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- logic and —, logical and —, logically and — 2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics” in The Review of Metaphysics LIII, № 4, § iii, page 815:
- Yet what is to be the status of a law of optimality to the effect that “whatever possibility is for the best is ipso facto the possibility that is actualized.” It is certainly not a logico-conceptually necessary truth; from the angle of theoretical logic it has to be seen as a contingent fact — albeit one not about nature as such, but rather one about the manifold of real possibility that underlies it. Insofar as it is necessary at all it obtains as a matter of ontological rather than logico-conceptual necessity, while the realm of possibility as a whole is presumably constituted by considerations of logico-metaphysical necessity alone.¹⁴
¹⁴ The operative perspective envisions a threefold order of necessity/possibility: the logico-conceptual, the ontological or proto-physical, and the physical. - Yet what is to be the status of a law of optimality to the effect that “whatever possibility is for the best is ipso facto the possibility that is actualized.” It is certainly not a logico-conceptually necessary truth; from the angle of theoretical logic it has to be seen as a contingent fact — albeit one not about nature as such, but rather one about the manifold of real possibility that underlies it. Insofar as it is necessary at all it obtains as a matter of ontological rather than logico-conceptual necessity, while the realm of possibility as a whole is presumably constituted by considerations of logico-metaphysical necessity alone.¹⁴
Etymology
logic + -o-