单词 | unlogically |
释义 | unlogicallyadv. Not logically, illogically; without logic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adverb] unlogically1610 inconsequently1635 illogically1660 bass-ackwardsa1865 alogically1900 bass-ackward1902 backasswards1951 backassward1961 1610 R. Bernard Plaine Evid. 195 Hee expounds Christ visible Church to be two or three faithfull people; which words hee puts in his Assumption vnlogically. 1733 J. Clarke Third Def. 6 If then I affirm Space to be Something, does it thence follow that it is a Substance? Whoever says it does, talks very unlogically. 1850 Conscience: Tale of Life (1851) ix. 140 The gentle sex do argue most lamely and unlogically—so much so, that I almost dread to hear them talk on two-sided questions. 1897 W. M. Urban Hist. Princ. Sufficient Reason iv. 45 Sufficient Reason he speaks of as a metalogical truth..which functions unlogically in space, time, causality and motivation. 1922 C. K. Ogden et al. tr. L. Wittgenstein Tractatus 43 We cannot think anything unlogical, for otherwise we should have to think unlogically. 1966 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 22 June 4/5 At the next door the bell was answered by a lady who, not unlogically, asked what I wanted. 2015 S. De Schaepdrijver Gabrielle Petit 226 The thematic card catalog covering pre-1910 themes—which, unlogically, contains many works on the First World War. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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