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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 04:13 PM EDT |
Thus you demonstrate a distinction between logic and reason. ;) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 04:28 PM EDT |
That's a very dangerous road to take.
Almost all the politically-created ills of mankind today stem from giving
credence to personalities instead of to logical arguments. The examples of this
are legion, and occur every single day throughout the world.
The "no time to analyze fully yourself" argument is not justified,
because *some* people will always find the time to analyze even the most complex
arguments and highlight their flaws. In so doing, they narrow the time needed
for logical analyses by everyone else simply because they deliver focus, not
through force of personality nor reputation. Other similarly competent analysts
will in turn point out any flaws in the logic of the former, and so on.
Logic shares a property with scientific theories: a single contrary observation
(once verified by others) is enough to shatter a theory for good, and so it is
with logical argument. This vastly reduces the barrier to logical thinking
about complex issues, because the only arguments left to consider are those
which survive the onslaught from logical analysts, and those themselves are
self-correcting.
Of course, human systems are far from perfect, and I do not for an instant
suggest that we could achieve perfection in this way. However, I do believe
that our current personality-based systems are so appallingly imperfect,
corrupt, and simply non-working that any increase in the ascendancy of logic can
only improve matters.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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