Geek Logic

An attempt by an individual to defend overt jumps in logic made by film-makers and authors in science fiction and fantasy movies or books. To go beyond what is obvious (or semi-obvious) to the average move-goer or book-reader to defend what was poor planning on the part of the creator. Be it anachronisms, poor research or cheap shortcuts to move a plot along. Geeks are FAMOUS for coming up with excuses as to why something in a favored movie was not self-evident to one of its critics. Some twisty "clever" explanation outside of what is available in the actual film is the geeks explanation. Usually some thought that a character was having about the situation, or some magical math that's only available in the sci-fi world in which the genre occurs.

Astrophysicist: A parsec is a measure of space and not time, so how could Han Solo have "made the Kessel Run in under 12 Parsecs"? It makes no sense!

Geek Logician: You see Kessel runners had to deposit smuggled spice shipments in between freighters traveling at a fixed speed, so that the shorter distance covered by said freighters during a Run was regarded as bragging rights.

by Douche Bigalow May 25, 2008

potato logic

A stupid person said to have the logic of a potato

Michael used potato logic to open his computer.

by Novi S November 6, 2013

logical positivism

Something really stupid and anoying they make you learn in Communication Studies graduate programs even though you're a rhetorician and couldn't really give a rat's ass.

Logical positivism asserts that only statements about empirical observations are meaningful, effectively asserting that all metaphysical statements are meaningless. Unfortunately, this fundamental tenet of logical positivism belongs to the family of statements that it asserts to be meaningless. As a result, the entire edifice of logical positivism vanishes in a puff of logic. This insight appears not to have occurred to the logical positivist school of philosophers.

by Jon Hoffman September 25, 2005

Finn logic

Something that in itself nearly makes sense, but is somehow explained or applied in an idiotic way.

"He meant well, but he didn't get what was stupid about his idea." "Sounds like Finn logic."

by Thespicetrader October 25, 2011

logic grenade

A statement of fact, usually in the form of an e-mail, that renders all hostile (emailers) silent

Employee #1: I had been getting calls and e-mails all morning about the Widget Project. Managers want status, test group wants results.
Employee #2: What changed? Why did they stop?
Employee #1: I silenced them all when I explained to them the Widget Project was, in fact, not my project (according to my manager) and they need to direct their efforts towards <Employee X>
Employee #2: Sounds like you lobbed them a logic grenade

by Jenkem Hog March 25, 2008

logicalicity

the process of applying personal logic to an action or question

~someone presents a difficult question to an audience,
a person in the audience thinks and responds with a dignified and intelligent answer
(the friend) "how did you know that?!"
(the respondent) "it's just logicalicity!"

by avtr June 13, 2008

logical lozz

A logical lozz is a creature whose life is riddled with mistakes, but uses his logic to overcome these problems with amazingly logical ideas.

Things that work correctly are not allowed near this creature.

A logical lozz scenario:

"The first car was fine until I left the water cap off"

OR

"The second car was fine until I had to rebuild the engine"

OR

"The third car was fine until I crashed it"

by Lozz! September 27, 2009