logic vs nonsense

logic

noun
  • It's hard to work out his system of logic. 

  • The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. 

  • The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements. 

  • The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit. 

  • 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. 

  • A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics. 

  • Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person. 

verb
  • To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic. 

  • To apply logical reasoning to. 

  • To overcome by logical argument. 

adj
  • logical 

nonsense

intj
  • An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with. 

adj
  • Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid). 

  • Nonsensical. 

noun
  • A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear. 

  • That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense. 

  • Something foolish. 

  • Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning. 

  • An untrue statement. 

  • A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing. 

verb
  • To make nonsense of; 

  • To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny. 

  • To joke around, to waste time 

How often have the words logic and nonsense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )