logicism
noun
logicism is a noun meaning “The doctrine that mathematics is a branch of logic in that some or all mathematics is reducible to logic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-G-I-C-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of logicism is logicisms.
What does logicism mean?
noun
- 1
The doctrine that mathematics is a branch of logic in that some or all mathematics is reducible to logic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of logicism
- logicisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is logicism?
Logicism appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Logicism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Logizismus |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does logicism come from?
From logic + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).