Meaning of alogism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
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2. An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
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3. Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
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4. An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
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5. An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
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Examples

“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).”

“The formal composition in all of these works done in the style of alogism is structured with mathematical precision approaching that of a blueprint.”

“According to Firtich, the alogism that links Carroll's and Kruchenykh's nonsense is made up of three aspects, of which the linguistic experiment of 'nonsense' is but one. Also linking these figures is the concept of alternative metaphysical realms being explored, and an artistic épatage against the dominant contemporary social and cultural institutions.”

“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.”

“In the puppet show he also found the style of discourse of the puppet-show barker, which breaks into the course of the action, with its tones of ironic publicity and praise, its alogisms and deliberate absurdities.”

“Mann's division of alogisms into 1 . alogisms as a basis and 2. alogisms as overtone (style), together with his account of the generalising (all-embracing) nature of the grotesque is convincing, and using these theories H. Gunther takes the discussion further.”

“But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book.”

“The dadaists emphasized that the basis of the creative process stems from alogisms.”

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

“Mere logism does not do justice to the import of being, and alogism does not do justice to the forms of thought. The former leads to formalism, the latter to arbitrariness.”

“This general tendency to alogism appears especially in connection with the problem of illusions and disillusionment which has become so prominent with the development of the causal or scientific point of view.”

“The principal reproach that Hartmann makes against Schleiermacher's theory is religious alogism, the blindness and amorphousness of naked feeling.”

“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.”

“The only means of discovering alogisms in thought is concrete dialectical analysis of reality reflected in the utterance.”

“All of the contradictions and alogisms in Schopenhauer's philosophy can be reduced to this basic misunderstanding.”

“From the very moment I assumed a conscious attitude towards life until this very day I have lived in its noisome atmosphere, breathed in the poisoned air which surrounds all these 'problems,' all these dark, harrowing alogisms, unbearable to the intellect.”

“Thus, in order to develop a system or automatic monitoring of the results of observations abourt the vessels of the GUGMS, it was necessary to conduct a statistical analysis of the data in the operational regions for the purpose of determining locally uniform regions, with respect to variability of the elements to be analyzed and to develop algorithms of the alogisms for all forms of observation.”

“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.”

“In English, I am is simply reversed to Am I to give it the sense of a question. In Japanese, the subject is often omitted, but understood. These are alogisms. What is expressed specifically in one language may be expressed by specific silence in another and vice versa.”

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