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Where does “antilogic” come from?

antilogic (English) comes from English logic, from French logique, from Latin logica, from Latin logicus, from Ancient Greek λογικός, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

antilogic (English): Failure to obey logic; fallacious thinking or...

Definitions

  1. Failure to obey logic; fallacious thinking or...

Ancestry of “antilogic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishlogiclogical; A method of human thought that involves...
2Frenchlogiquelogic; logical
3Latinlogicanominative feminine singular of logicus;...
4Latinlogicuslogical; reasonable
5Ancient GreekλογικόςBelonging to speech: prose; Belonging to reason:...
6Ancient GreekλόγοςThat which is said: word, sentence, speech,...
7Ancient GreekλέγωI put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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