Definition of "logical" []

• Of, relating to, in accordance with, or of the nature of logic. (adjective)
• Based on earlier or otherwise known statements, events, or conditions; reasonable: Rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year. (adjective)
• Reasoning or capable of reasoning in a clear and consistent manner. (adjective)

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• "So I decided to study people who had very different strength and different intelligences, people like Einstein, who had what I call logical mathematical intelligence; the painter Picasso, who was spatial intelligence; Gandhi, I had an example of interpersonal intelligence, somebody who understood other people very, very well."
• "It is assumed, I suppose, that contradictions among ideas and beliefs are of various degrees and of various modes besides that specific one which we call logical incompatibility."
• "Classes or series of particulars, collected together on account of some property which makes it convenient to be able to speak of them as wholes, are what I call logical constructions or symbolic fictions."