Daniel · 11 answers · 3y

What is logic?

A field of study that investigates the consistency of propositional sets and inference rules between them.

A rapper that white people who say they "don't normally listen to that kind of music" will say they like.

It's the ordering principles behind semantic thought.

Some people think logic is an absolute, overarching property of reality, but I don't think so. You can't present any imaginary physical scenario in which logic itself is discovered to be violated. For example, take a square circle, or x!=x. What would that look like in reality, and if it were the case how would you possibly detect it? You couldn't. This shows that logic is not an observed or inferred property of reality but is tautological and represents only coherent thinking.

It is the teacher that says that your gut driven wants and ideas cannot be brought into existence the way like in your fantasy. That also is why it gets ignored broadly. Tell a kid it will get 2 cookies in a n hour or 1 cookie right now. Most prefer the 1 cookie and then lament the lack of another. That is us. Logic let's us foresee the results of actions of people who have none, as well as those of people who got some. From that point of view it is a grim tool for predators with brains.

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