diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index b451ec0169..79520c3e2d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2032,8 +2032,8 @@ directories containing the actual translation files.
 
 Default: A logging configuration dictionary.
 
-A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of
-this data structure will be passed as the argument to the
+A data structure containing configuration information. When not-empty, the
+contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the
 configuration method described in :setting:`LOGGING_CONFIG`.
 
 Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server