1870 Catholic World Jan. 487/1 The protological and encyclopædic principle cannot be placed elsewhere than in the principle of creation, understood in conformity with the tradition of the Catholic Church.

1906 Science 13 Apr. 579/1 (title) English dramatic origins—a protological study.

1963 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 31 11/1 As there is to be an eschatological time after the end of history, so there was a protological time before the beginning of history.

2000 C. Crowder in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 313/1 Christian reflection on human existence, throughout its history, has always been not only protological , but eschatological too—that is, it has been concerned not just with beginnings but with ends.

1936 R. A. S. Macalister tr. R. R. Schmidt Dawn of Human Mind Introd. 5 The proto-logical, magical [Ger. urlogisch-magische] experience of life..fashions the primeval type of human mental existence in prehistoric times.

1957 W. F. Albright From Stone Age to Christianity (rev. ed.) 7 I distinguished three [phases], which I now label ‘proto-logical’, ‘empirico-logical’, and ‘logical’... ‘Proto-logical’ thinking refers primarily to the religion, art, and literature of ancient and modern primitives, and in some respects it is even more alive in the West today than it was three thousand years ago.

1974 Archiv f. Rechts- u. Sozialphilosophie 60 385 We have found that the learning of basic logical principles and methods via protological calculus has also a didactic advantage.

1987 K. R. Pavlovic tr. P. Lorenzen Constructive Philos. ii. iv. 61 To avoid misunderstanding..it must be noted at the outset that by no means is every schematic operation to be designated as protological.

1997 Child Devel. 68 1022/1 The experience..that has prompted past generations of scholars..to speculate about and study the sorts of paleological or paralogical or protological processes of transductive thought that could conceivably give rise to such exotic ways of thinking.