Monday, January 11, 2010
I agree with the first one that logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. With logical proofs, you can prove many things to be right, even if they are false. Things that seem logical can also be false. This is how people can argue things that they know are wrong, but can still make a logical argument. Or, how people can preform actions that seem like bad ideas to us, but to the person preforming them seem logical.
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I agree with what you said about "illogical" logic. However, i dont know if you are proving them right more than admitting that they hold water, in other words; they are logical. It doesnt make the statement true, just logical
ReplyDeleteI agree with Trevor that you aren't actually proving that they are right but that they are valid which, as shown by the many blog posts, are two very different things. I think the issue with validity and truthfulness arises when people use premises that are not unanimously and indisputably true. Instead they use premises based on their own personal beliefs. This is where you get people who, like you stated, perform actions that seem like bad ideas to us but seem logical to them.
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