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Logical vs Analytic - What's the difference?

logical | analytic |

As adjectives the difference between logical and analytic

is that logical is (not comparable) in agreement with the principles of logic while analytic is of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

logical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic.
  • Reasonable.
  • (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
  • (computing) Non-physical or conceptual yet underpinned by something physical or actual.
  • Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.
  • * 1986 , Noel Malcolm Morris, Computer graphics and CAD fundamentals: BBC Micro version
  • It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program

    Antonyms

    * illogical

    Derived terms

    * logically * logical analysis * logical atomism * logical positivism * logical empiricism

    analytic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * analytick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics
  • of, or relating to division into elements or principles
  • having the ability to analyse
  • (logic) (of a proposition ) that follows necessarily; tautologous
  • (mathematics) of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis
  • (analysis) being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives
  • (linguistics) using multiple simple words, instead of inflection
  • Antonyms

    * (linguistic) synthetic * (logical) contingent

    Derived terms

    () * analyticism * analyticity * analytic capacity * analytic combinatorics * analytic continuation * analytic cubism * analytic element method * analytic frame * analytic function * analytic geometry * analytic hierarchy * analytic induction * analytic language * analytic manifold * analytic number theory * analytic philosophy * analytic proof * analytic proposition * analytic psychology * analytic set * analytic signal * analytic solution * analytic variety * hyperanalytic * psychoanalytic