alogism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.

   “His right eye was black; the left, for some strange reason (alogism), green. Black eyebrows, but (alogism) one higher that the other. In short a foreigner (alogism).”

2. isim An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.

   “The theatricality of logic is, then, at least as effective in such speeches as are the meanderings of many an avant-garde playwright whose comic alogisms tend, sometime, to detract from the gravity of the situation described.”

3. isim Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.

   “Dialectics degenerates into its contrary (as it does later in neo-Hegelian irrationalism), into alogism.”

4. isim An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.

   “so the pen of Moses, of which the former may be regarded as in some manner symbolical, will confound all the physical sophisms and alogisms which have been advanced, in contradiction or perversion of the record which that pen was commissioned to inscribe.”

5. isim An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.

   “From the multitude of his "equivalent thoughts" a person may, depending on his psychological "attitude," select and combine the most “comfortable” ones, tolerating the rest as unavoidable alogisms that must be circumvented if they cannot merely be swept aside.”