alogism

noun5

1. •
   Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.

   • Dialectics degenerates into its contrary (as it does later in neo-Hegelian irrationalism), into alogism. — 1976
2. •
   An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.

   • The only means of discovering alogisms in thought is concrete dialectical analysis of reality reflected in the utterance. — 1990
3. •
   An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
4. •
   An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.

   • 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). — 1974
5. •
   An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.

   • But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book. — 1984