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Guess vs Logic - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between guess and logic

is that guess is to reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion while logic is to engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.

As nouns the difference between guess and logic

is that guess is a prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support while logic is a method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.

As an adjective logic is

logical.

guess

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

  • To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
  • To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
  • He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
  • (chiefly, US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
  • That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Not all together; better far, I guess , / That we do make our entrance several ways.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.
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  • (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
    Synonyms
    * hypothesize * take a stab * speculate
    Derived terms
    * foreguess * guess what * guessable * guesser * guessing game * guesstimate * guesswork * keep someone guessing * no prize for guessing * out-guess * second-guess * you'll never guess

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gesse. Cognate with (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
  • If you don't know the answer, take a guess .
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  • Synonyms
    * estimate * hypothesis * prediction
    Derived terms
    * another-guess * anyone's guess * by guess or by gosh * educated guess * guesswork * guesstimate * otherguess * take a guess * your guess is as good as mine

    logic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * logick (archaic)

    Adjective

  • logical
  • Noun

    (wikipedia logic)
  • (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
  • (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
  • * 2001 , Mark Sainsbury, Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition , Blackwell Publishing, p. 9
  • An old tradition has it that there are two branches of logic: deductive logic and inductive logic. More recently, the differences between these disciplines have become so marked that most people nowadays use "logic" to mean deductive logic, reserving terms like "confirmation theory" for at least some of what used to be called inductive logic. I shall follow the more recent practice, and shall construe "philosophy of logic" as "philosophy of deductive logic".
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of proof of statements.
  • (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
  • (uncountable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
  • It's hard to work out his system of logic .
  • (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
  • Fred is designing the logic for the new controller.

    Synonyms

    * formal logic, modern logic * formal system * (philosophy ): predicate logic

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * Aristotelian logic * Boolean logic * chop logic * combinational logic * computability logic * deontic logic * diode logic * diode-transistor logic * first-order logic * formal logic * fuzzy logic * intensional logic * interpretability logic * intuitionistic logic * logic chopper * many-sorted logic * material logic * mathematical logic * modal logic * modern logic * multi-valued logic * negative logic * non-Aristotelian logic * philosophical logic * positive logic * predicate logic * propositional logic * provability logic * resistor-transistor logic * sequential logic * symbolic logic * traditional logic * transistor-transistor logic

    Verb

  • (pejorative) To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
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  • To apply logical reasoning to.
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  • To overcome by logical argument.
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