Multilogism

Extra-cognitive principles of selections, practical considerations, life-motives and a number of other criteria are to be brought forward to justify the retention and selection of one view in preference to others. Thus multilogism inevitably leads to pragmatism, and must, in the end, finish itself in extra-cognitive bases of the forms of apprehension.

One might speak of networks as characterized by multilogism, both at the macrolevel of their connectivity and in the microlevel interactions of each node in the network. Dialogism is a generic term that has been imposed in translation to label the applications of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas. These applications stress interaction and develop Bakhtin's original metaphor of differing points of view preseneted in a conversation.

However painful, this dialogism or even this multilogism—with its corollary risk of disintegration—is what makes the two authors' philosophical autobiographical texts so unsettling, enigmatic and fascinating, but also so pioneering formally, thematically and ideologically: both are indeed distinctly Romantic but their appraoch prefigures in many ways (post)modernist thinking and what would, by the late 1970s, begin to be called autofiction.