alogical

[ey-loj-i-kuhl]

adjective

1. beyond the scope of logic or logical reasoning.

   alogical philosophical speculations.

Other Word Forms

• alogically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of alogical¹

First recorded in 1685–95; a- ⁶ + logical

Example Sentences

The negative, the alogical, is never wholly banished.

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Now the question naturally arises, how does this recollected state, this alogical brooding on a spiritual theme, exceed in religions value the orderly saying of one's prayers?

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The contradiction is not that which is entirely alogical, but it is a spur to further thinking.

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Back of the logical labor of proof and inference stand, as inciting, guiding, and hindering agents, psychical and historical forces, which are themselves in large measure alogical, though stronger than all logic; while just before stretches away the immeasurable domain of reality, at once inviting and resisting conquest.

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Accordingly, 'twas for their sakes alone that the racks and tortures for confession were invented, though some foreign civilians in our time have drawn alogical and unreasonable consequences from it.

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