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prelogical

prelogical adjective: before the development of logical thought.

Adjective

prelogical (not comparable)

  1. Before the development of logical thought.
    • In the old days of scholarship of F.M. Cornford and Henri Frankfort, the expressions of mythopoeic thought were seen as products of a prelogical mentality, because Aristotle's law of the excluded middle was ignored, and one thing could be two things, or more, at the same time.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 213

Origin of prelogical

From pre- + logical.

Questions about prelogical

What does prelogical mean?
Prelogical means before the development of logical thought.
What part of speech is prelogical?
Prelogical is an adjective.

Words near prelogical in the dictionary

  1. prelocution
  2. prelocutions
  3. Prelog
  4. prelogging
  5. prelogic
  6. prelogical
  7. prelogism
  8. prelogisms
  9. preloral
  10. preloss
  11. preloved

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