Meaning of multilogism | Babel Free

Definitions

The inclusion and acceptance of divergent lines of reasoning within a single text, discussion, or approach to a question.

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Examples

“Extra-cognitive principles of selections, practical considerations, life-motives and a number⟳ of other criteria are to be brought forward⟳ to justify⟳ the retention and selection of one view⟳ in preference to others. Thus multilogism inevitably leads to pragmatism, and must, in the end⟳, finish⟳ itself in extra-cognitive bases of the forms of apprehension.”

“One might speak⟳ of networks as characterized by multilogism, both at the macrolevel of their connectivity and in the microlevel interactions of each node in the network. Dialogism is a generic term that has been imposed in translation to label⟳ the applications of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas. These applications stress⟳ interaction and develop⟳ Bakhtin's original metaphor of differing points of view⟳ preseneted in a conversation.”

“However painful, this dialogism or even this multilogism—with its corollary risk⟳ of disintegration—is what makes the two authors' philosophical autobiographical texts so unsettling, enigmatic and fascinating, but also so pioneering formally, thematically and ideologically: both are indeed distinctly Romantic but their appraoch prefigures in many ways (post⟳)modernist thinking and what would, by the late 1970s, begin⟳ to be called autofiction.”

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