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alogical, a.|eɪˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. a- 14 + logical a. Cf. F. alogique.]
Non-logical; not based upon reason or formed by an act of judgement; opposed to logic. Also absol., that which is alogical. Hence aˈlogically adv.; ˌalogiˈcality.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. xviii, Foreign Civilians..have uncivily drawn alogical and unreasonable Consequences from it [tiré à consequence alogicque, c'est à dire desraisonnable]. 1881G. S. Hall Asp. German Culture 43 There is an immanent teleology in his [Julius Bahnsen's] universe; but it is not merely alogical, but anti-logical, and even anti-causal. 1907E. B. Bax Roots of Reality 19 Undoubtedly the alogical is..a primary element in all experience. Ibid., In ordinary consciousness..the ultimate elements of a reality or thing are an alogical feeling or sensation, and a logical form or category. Ibid. 161 In every process of consciousness a contradiction lies embedded, based on the antithetic character of its two ultimate elements, the mark of which we have found to consist respectively in alogicality and logicality. Ibid. 173 The aim of art..is to express the unity and harmony of experience..in the world of immediate feeling—in a word, alogically. 1908J. M. Baldwin Thought & Things II. 386 The Logical and the A-logical. 1909W. James Let. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. 680, I am a-logical, if not illogical, and glad to be so. 1925J. E. Turner Theory Direct Realism 25 It is not surprising..that this attitude..should be regarded as instinctive non-rational, and alogical. 1957P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. xiv. 205 What was described as alogical thinking was quite logical thinking in a different frame of reference. |
