Monday, January 11, 2010
A) Logic is the art of going wrong but with confidence
I think that logic isn't a stand alone guarentee of credulity, if anything it can be a useful tool to weed out irrational errors. Basically, this istatement is saying that people instill a lot of confidence in logic, despite being wrong, because they believe that with logic there is always a final and definite answer that cannot be argued. However, although logic always has an answer, it doesn’t really consider emotional or other environmental effects as they are not definite consequences on an action. If you try to apply logical thought to things totally outside its capacity to understand, it becomes a defective thought. That’s how logic easily goes wrong. But where does the confidence part come in? Well, since logic is already drawn out for you and has a final answer that you can’t argue against, it makes one feel confident in their answer because they know, or they think they know, that it is impossible to argue and be wrong. It’s easy to feel confident and well-assured in trusting in something that cannot be argued, but what people don’t consider is that there are things “outside the box” that can defy and prove logic to be wrong.
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I'm confused as to why you say that, "logic is already drawn out for you and has a final answer that you can’t argue against." I feel that there is no definite answer to something and that an answer always has some weakness that can be argued against. When I think about, I don't see just one answer to something, unless I'm in math class.
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