What in hell does it mean for the human condition to be a logical entity? — Marchesk
That everything comprising it would descend exclusively from logical causes - — Robert Lockhart
a Devine Will that could have the intention of ordaining it with a nature other than the nihilism that might conceivably characterise it were the hypothesis proposed for the basis of its' nature in the question actually to be the case. — Robert Lockhart
Atheists propose everything defining our human situation descends from logical causes, — Robert Lockhart
You'd at least have to define what the 'divine will' was.he idea of the question is simply to devellop the hypothesis that our situation exclusively descends from logical causes and then to consider whether such a putative reality might in principle entail any differences which would be irreconcilable with a situation the nature of which was characterised by the morality of a Devine Will. — Robert Lockhart
Is this some kind of wacky pomo course? — Terrapin Station
with regard to the proposition previously advanced - it has been postulated that, were every factor constituting our situation descended from logical causes exclusively, then, in that the consequence of this would be that every degree of austerity or benigness characterising our experience possible in the logical abstract would thus in principle be manifestable, so the condition of human beings existing in such a situation could in principle exhibit an absolute inequity, rendering from the isolated position of those happening to be absolutely unfortunate a situation perhaps incomprehensible in terms of a legitimatly requirable capacity for comprehension. — Robert Lockhart
What is there to understand, by way of reasoning, in the many unreasonable injustices which partly characterize the human condition?. . not logical in the sense of formal logic or deductive inference, but rather logical in the wider sense that it is something which can be understood by way of reasoning. — Moliere
but not logical in the sense of formal logic or deductive inference, but rather logical in the wider sense that it is something which can be understood by way of reasoning. — Moliere
I think we can easily go overboard with the principle of charity. — Terrapin Station
One problem though is that he used the phrase "logical deduction." It's kind of difficult to make a case that he wasn't referring to logic in the sense of deductive inference when he uses the phrase "logical deduction." — Terrapin Station
I think we can easily go overboard with the principle of charity.
As an aside, I never liked the formal/informal distinction with respect to logic. I don't think that the idea of an informal logic, in the sense of a logic that doesn't have to do with form (or relationships of propositions etc.), makes any sense. Symbolic/non-symbolic, or logical language/natural language or variable/non-variable, or something like that would be a better distinction in my opinion.
Anyway, not as an aside, the upshot of this is that there's not really an informal, significantly different sort of logic (in any broad sense) to refer to.
Have you had the chance to read Finocchiaro? — Moliere
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