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preˈlogical, a. [pre- B. 1.] Preceding or prior to logic or logical reasoning; chiefly in Anthrop., applied to the thinking of persons or cultural groups which is based on myth, magic, etc. Also transf. and absol.
1893C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1933) IV. i. iv. 62 The whole of the theory of numbers belongs to logic; or rather, it would do so, were it not, as pure mathematics, prelogical, that is, even more abstract than logic. 1923L. A. Clare tr. Lévy-Bruhl's Primitive Mentality ii. 91 To prelogical mentality, cause and effect present themselves in two forms, not essentially different from one another. 1926― tr. Lévy-Bruhl's How Natives Think i. ii. 78 By designating it [sc. the mentality of primitives] ‘prelogical’ I merely wish to state that it does not bind itself down, as our thought does, to avoiding contradiction. 1933H. Read Art Now i. 34 Art conceived as a stage in the ideal history of mankind, as a pre-logical mode of expression, as something necessary and inevitable and organic. 1935Mind XLIV. 544 Insistence on the alogical, or prelogical, character of the aesthetic consciousness. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 220 The first stage of human development..is that of the savage, prelogical mentality, with a one-valued semantics (or system of evaluations), in which..‘everything is everything else’ by ‘mystic participation’. 1959Spectator 11 Sept. 339/3 If we seek the pre-logical and oppose the march of intellect, we are the enemies of science..and the worshippers of myth. 1967C. L. Markmann tr. Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1968) vi. 159 The prelogical thought of the phobic has decided that such is the case. 1977G. W. Hewes in D. M. Rumbaugh Lang. Learning by Chimpanzee i. 28 Early language was also characteristically ‘prelogical’. |