[Revised entry by Bernard Linsky on June 24, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The term "logical construction" was used by Bertrand Russell to describe a series of similar philosophical theories beginning with the 1901 "Frege-Russell" definition of numbers as classes and continuing through his "construction" of the notions of space, time and matter after 1914. Philosophers since the 1920s have argued about the significance of "logical construction" as a method in analytic philosophy and proposed various ways of interpreting...