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postformal

The English word “postformal” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

  1. Following the formal operational stage (the last of Jean Piaget's four stages of human cognitive development), and involving more complex forms of thinking such as self-reference, pragmatism, and acceptance of paradoxes.

Etymology

From post- + formal.

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