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Have you ever asked a question that just burned you out and realized you'd have to come back to it at a later date when you emptied your head out?
I tried turning logic in on itself by asking the question "Is logic logical?" and go about analyzing it in as logical a manner as possible...I fast burned out my energy on that one with no satisfactory conclusion. I tried seeing as well if someone else had answered it but all I found were a few extreme fundamentalists that seemed to have no inkling of how logic actually worked, it disheartened me. I don't consider your religious text that states "My deity said otherwise" ample enough an argument to topple logic.
Personally I was thinking that perhaps I could turn Occam's Razor on logic, that much of it relied on assumptions of perception and absolutes. Logic has built itself a formidable fortress though, I'm not sure that would be enough to assail it.
Fortunately quantum mechanics is working in my favor on this one. Previous held convictions which were the bread and butter of the rational world have been toppled in lieu of scientific observation in the quantum field. However sadly working against me is the fact that such discoveries tend to be brought into the light in lieu of the very great or very small, when it comes to the day to day world life seems to fall in perfectly still with the world of Newtonian Physics, making it that much more unlikely that I'm to convince anyone that arguments against logic really hold any water.
But why would I do this? Maybe it's just that many of my peers that I debate with are hard atheists and seem to think that logic is the only principle upon which one should build knowledge, that truth is exclusive to logic. Perhaps it would be better to pin it on hard irreligiousness. Maybe, perhaps, if I were to hold truth as the highest virtue as I say I do, I must be prepared to question the means by which I find truths.
Either way it's a question that must be answered, despite what the answer turns out to be. My hypothesis is that logic is not always logical, but I guess I'll find out when I set my mind to the matter whether or not that's actually the case. We'll see.
Have you ever asked a question that just burned you out and realized you'd have to come back to it at a later date when you emptied your head out?
I tried turning logic in on itself by asking the question "Is logic logical?" and go about analyzing it in as logical a manner as possible...I fast burned out my energy on that one with no satisfactory conclusion. I tried seeing as well if someone else had answered it but all I found were a few extreme fundamentalists that seemed to have no inkling of how logic actually worked, it disheartened me. I don't consider your religious text that states "My deity said otherwise" ample enough an argument to topple logic.
Personally I was thinking that perhaps I could turn Occam's Razor on logic, that much of it relied on assumptions of perception and absolutes. Logic has built itself a formidable fortress though, I'm not sure that would be enough to assail it.
Fortunately quantum mechanics is working in my favor on this one. Previous held convictions which were the bread and butter of the rational world have been toppled in lieu of scientific observation in the quantum field. However sadly working against me is the fact that such discoveries tend to be brought into the light in lieu of the very great or very small, when it comes to the day to day world life seems to fall in perfectly still with the world of Newtonian Physics, making it that much more unlikely that I'm to convince anyone that arguments against logic really hold any water.
But why would I do this? Maybe it's just that many of my peers that I debate with are hard atheists and seem to think that logic is the only principle upon which one should build knowledge, that truth is exclusive to logic. Perhaps it would be better to pin it on hard irreligiousness. Maybe, perhaps, if I were to hold truth as the highest virtue as I say I do, I must be prepared to question the means by which I find truths.
Either way it's a question that must be answered, despite what the answer turns out to be. My hypothesis is that logic is not always logical, but I guess I'll find out when I set my mind to the matter whether or not that's actually the case. We'll see.