logico-aesthetic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   involving or judged by both logical coherence and aesthetic qualities such as simplicity, symmetry, or elegance

   The physicist favored the finite model on logico-aesthetic grounds, while admitting that the evidence was not conclusive.

Formed from logico-, the combining form of logic or logical, and aesthetic. Logic ultimately comes from Ancient Greek logos ('word, reason') through logikos ('rational'); aesthetic comes from Ancient Greek aisthetikos ('of sense perception'). The compound joins standards of rational coherence with standards of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

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