Well, this started off in one of my random ponderings (and thus probably should go in a blog), and I'm interested in what SP (whose members have a variety of mental backgrounds) think about, if anyone has bothered wasting time on it.
It's about logic, or more about the lack thereof. What would our world be like, had there not been logic?
Now it's a far stretch in itself to be pondering about logic, let alone the lack of it, because I doubt I even grasp what logic is.
But anyway, if it's bothered you, fire away and let others have a glimpse of your mental universe.
In my perception, logic is what makes sense to our brain, even the Schrödinger's cat. A cow is a cow, one cow, not two cows. (Which is essentially why dividing by zero yields a logical error.)
If you fall from a cliff, the gravity is going to exert enough of a force for which the "rebound" force is going to kill you. If you don't breathe, your lungs won't have air, your blood won't absorb oxygen, your cells will have nothing to burn the fuel with, there will be no energy and your body will die.
Is logic a fact, a truth? Something most natural that constructs the world as we know it, and probably the only world out there whose scope we aren't yet fully aware of? (a cow is a cow, not two cows; it seems like a factual statement)
Or is logic just the way we infer things? This happens, it means this, then it makes "sense" for that to be like that, bla bla bla. In this way, clearly we could have gone off in a different directions (we see in daily lives that one event doesn't necessarily have just one implication, we tend to just pick up one inference). But if such were the case, what would it be like without logic? What if a cow were not just a cow?
It's about logic, or more about the lack thereof. What would our world be like, had there not been logic?
Now it's a far stretch in itself to be pondering about logic, let alone the lack of it, because I doubt I even grasp what logic is.
But anyway, if it's bothered you, fire away and let others have a glimpse of your mental universe.
Preface
In my perception, logic is what makes sense to our brain, even the Schrödinger's cat. A cow is a cow, one cow, not two cows. (Which is essentially why dividing by zero yields a logical error.)
If you fall from a cliff, the gravity is going to exert enough of a force for which the "rebound" force is going to kill you. If you don't breathe, your lungs won't have air, your blood won't absorb oxygen, your cells will have nothing to burn the fuel with, there will be no energy and your body will die.
Is logic a fact, a truth? Something most natural that constructs the world as we know it, and probably the only world out there whose scope we aren't yet fully aware of? (a cow is a cow, not two cows; it seems like a factual statement)
Or is logic just the way we infer things? This happens, it means this, then it makes "sense" for that to be like that, bla bla bla. In this way, clearly we could have gone off in a different directions (we see in daily lives that one event doesn't necessarily have just one implication, we tend to just pick up one inference). But if such were the case, what would it be like without logic? What if a cow were not just a cow?

