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unlogic

unlogic noun: want or absence of logic; illogic.

Noun

unlogic (uncountable)

  1. Want or absence of logic; illogic
    • The most Conservative English People, thickest-skinned, most patient of Peoples, is driven alike by its Logic and its Unlogic, by things 'spoken,' and by things not yet spoken or very speakable, but only felt […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)
    • We are here confronted with an 'unlogic' characteristic of human thinking during its state of isolation from the dynamic substratum of the world of the senses, an unlogic which one encounters repeatedly in scientific argumentation once one has grown aware of it.1985, Ernst Lehrs, Man Or Matter - Page 358

Examples of unlogic in a sentence

  • Moreover, the regular use of logic would make subjects predictable, thus unlogic decision behavior might be more adaptive in specific situation.2011, Philipp Kirchner, Heurists and Biases with Habitual Entrepreneurs - Page 26:
  • Logic, even in such a world of unlogic, must make her think lucidly.2014, Andre Norton, Wizard's Worlds: A Short Story Collection:

Origin of unlogic

From un- + logic.

Questions about unlogic

What does unlogic mean?
Unlogic means want or absence of logic; illogic.
How do you use unlogic in a sentence?
Moreover, the regular use of logic would make subjects predictable, thus unlogic decision behavior might be more adaptive in specific situation.
What part of speech is unlogic?
Unlogic is a noun.

Words near unlogic in the dictionary

  1. unlodging
  2. unloftily
  3. unlofty
  4. unlogarithmized
  5. unlogged
  6. unlogic
  7. unlogical
  8. unlogically
  9. unlonely
  10. unlonesome
  11. unlooked

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