illogic

comparative more illogic · superlative most illogic

1. Synonym of illogical.

   I think this is a very illogic way of reasoning.

   1896, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

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   Because everything started precisely by the influence of that country that practically became our enemy; and it's very illogic that somebody would try to escape by getting into the mouth of the wolf.

   2012, Marko Dorantes, Somewhere Somehow, →ISBN, page 131

   The problem with using dreams as story material is the very illogic nature of them, the juxtaposition of images and actions without regard for the laws of physics, psychology, or anything else.

   2015, Deborah J. Ross, Ink Dance: Essays on The Writing Life, →ISBN

   Synonyms: illogical

plural illogics

1. uncountableusuallyLack of logic; unreasonableness; a fallacy.

   And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive.

   1907, Jack London, Before Adam

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   Mr Qaddafi, with a characteristic mix of bluntness and illogic, declared that his ideology was ‘theoretically’ a genuine democracy, but in reality, ‘the strong always rule.’

   2011 February 25, “Endgame in Tripoli”, in The Economist

   It took me in. The swirl of it. The illogic of it. Why was there a child in those winds? Why were there stars in a daylight sky? And then I noticed the trees in the picture were golden, every part of them golden, as if they'd swallowed the Sun. Why? Who would have them this way, when in life they are not this way? And in the corner! In the corner of the rectangle, finally I saw a hundred or so grasping human hands, and these hands were all blue, when in life there are no blue hands that I have seen. Why would this picture be this way, I wondered. Why why why?

   2023, Dave Eggers, illustrated by Shawn Harris, The Eyes and the Impossible, page 45

   Synonyms: unlogic