prelogical

And it is the prime mover of cognitive history: of the cognitive transitions occurring over a day, over a lifetime and over the historical emergence of rational man from prelogical antiquity.

The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

If we run this process backwards we will have something strikingly like, in its base features, the process of a child maturing; or the rational mind emerging from prelogical antiquity.

The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

The waning structure of the Pindarics may allude therefore to metaphysical problems that had no solutions, problems that in a prelogical age could be expressed only in mythopoeic terms.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968

The myth of the illogical or prelogical savage may safely be relegated to that museum of learned absurdities and abortions which speculative anthropology is constantly enriching with fresh specimens of misapplied ingenuity and wasted industry.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897