If logic is based from something illogical, what value makes this logical? — Advocate
If logic is based from something illogical, — Advocate
Also right and wrong very often have nothing to do with logic and vice versa. — Thanatos Sand
In Hitler's perspective, his plans of destruction were viewed as logical.
But how logical is extermination, deprivation, and segregation from the perspective of a larger system of logic?
How could Hitler's followers praise his "logical" plan? — Advocate
I think maybe you're using the term "logic" in a fairly non-philosophical way. — Terrapin Station
I think maybe you're using the term "logic" in a fairly non-philosophical way.
— Terrapin Station
I'd bet my bottom dollar on it. — Sapientia
How could Hitler's followers praise his "logical" plan? — Advocate
If logic is based from something illogical, what value makes this logical? — Advocate
Logic should be logical. We can make some language systems. Some languages may be logical, and others may be not. If your own language system is not logical, then it is not logic. — A Son of Rosenthal
Yep; I would add that the community of logicians and other thinkers think it so because it provides a useful, interesting topic.Logic is a multiplicity of systems built from the way we find ourselves making inferences. It's logical because a community of logicians and other thinkers think it so, and their ways of saying it makes sense in turn make sense to many others. — mcdoodle
From what I said above, one can see that even a contradiction can provide us with a system of logic. But not a useful system of logic. — Banno
Hello, Tiff. How are our kids? — Banno
What would our lives be if we were not able to be vulnerable? — ArguingWAristotleTiff
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