prelogical
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English
Etymology
Adjective
prelogical (not comparable)
- Before the development of logical thought.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 213:
- 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.