单词 | alogism |
释义 | alogismn. 1. An illogical or irrational statement or notion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > instance of reason1589 circularity1610 brain-squirt1654 flaw1667 alogism1679 pseudo-argument1872 illogicality1873 1679 E. Everard Depositions Popish Plot 14 The ground from which they took the occasion of this slanderous Allogisme. 1825 G. Penn Compar. Estimate Mineral & Mosaical Geol. (ed. 2) Introd. p. xxxii The pen of Moses..will confound all the physical sophisms and alogisms which have been advanced. 1932 F. S. Haserot Ess. on Logic of Being ii. 624 The common notion of measuring the civilization of an age by the number and efficacy of its implements is only an alogism of current opinion. 2002 World Lit. Today 76 67/1 Like Gogol, Pelevin has a penchant for alogisms, even preceding Generatsion ‘P’ with one in his authorial foreword: ‘The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.’ 2. Philosophy. Opposition to or absence of reason or logic; spec. the theory that a person may conduct him or herself without being restricted by logic or rationality.Particularly associated with the pragmatist thinkers of the early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] inconsequence1588 flashness1604 illogicalness1657 illogicality1830 unlogic1843 illogic1856 non-consequence1856 alogism1866 alogicality1907 alogic1935 1866 Sat. Rev. 24 Nov. 646/1 The offence is more deadly still if the assailant [on philosophy] has appealed, not only to popular alogism, but to popular theological prejudices. 1906 J. M. Baldwin Thought & Things I. Pref. p. xi There is just now a movement, of which the current Pragmatism is an extreme and less important phase, toward ‘a-logistic’ views—to adopt the word ‘a-logism’ from M. Bergson. 1911 J. M. Baldwin Thought & Things III. iv. 47 The ‘alogism’ of Bergson, which James cites as nearer his own, seems, however,..in its outcome, nearer to that of Bradley, since it is a mode of higher intuition or immediacy to which Bergson makes appeal. 1935 R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James II. 681 An almost morbid alogism, or antipathy to the mode of thinking which employs definitions, symbols, and trains of inference. 1994 Stud. East European Thought 46 275 He explicitly rejects the alogism that had led some Russian thinkers to affirm the absolute supremacy of faith over all so-called rational or logical ‘necessity’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1679 |
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