Introduction

This book is a reaction against young Levy Bruhl's position that the world's (African) thought is pre-logical. Systematically therefore it exposes first the influence of positivism and two-valued logic on Bruhl which made him to be anti-spiritualism and second interpreted African thought from two-valued logic point of view. This wrong interpretational tool resulted in his onslaught on African thought which is the subject of the book's reaction.

Position and Argument

This book's position is that every interpretation stems from a particular logic and this logic needs to evolve from the same ontological context with the phenomenon that is to be interpreted. The implication of this is that, there is a bi-conditional structural relationship between every logic and its cultural ontology. The book investigates this assertion using prevalent (2VL) of the West and the prevalent ontology of the same culture. The investigation proved positive.

Theoretical Development

On the above discovery, the book developed the theory of structural analogy and logical functionalism (SAALF) as a justification for the derivation of a prevalent trinitarian logic from African trinitarian prevalent ontology. From this theoretical standpoint, the book, in agreement with some twentieth-century analytic logicians, defines logic as a science of relation between realities from which principles of argumentation and reasoning can be developed.

Application and Differentiation

This book goes ahead to use this logic to explain some African phenomena such as the concept of African healing, oath-taking, and education. For the benefit of doubt, the book differentiates between Harmonious Monism and Hermeneutics as an answer to some questions of the critics.