Abstract

The technical term prelogic, prelogical (thinking) was established by the French philosopher and ethnograph Lucien Levy-Bruhl (1857–1939) and it means that by primitive man “collective ideas” were not thought according to the rules of formal logic, on the contrary, the rise of such ideas about the surroundings of man was throughout “prelogical”, i.e. distinct from logical thinking in modern sense and in no way directed by the rules of formal logic.

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