a field of study that deals with the ways of thinking, explaining, and reasoning
capable of following rules of logic and forming ideas based on facts that are true
a person who specializes in or is skilled at symbolic logic and reasoning
the management of supplying labor and materials as needed for an operation or task
a person who doubts or questions the sincerity and motives of others
having a distrustful or negative outlook, often believing that people are motivated by self-interest
the process of something becoming more compact or pressed together
focusing on the exact words only, without looking for deeper or implied meanings
well-educated and intelligent people who deal with literature or publishing
written works that are valued as works of art, such as novels, plays and poems