RE: Actual Infinity in Reality?
February 15, 2018 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 7:31 pm by Whateverist.)
(February 15, 2018 at 1:30 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 12:54 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Are the laws of logic considered descriptive? If so, how could they exist outside of space-time? Without space-time, there couldn’t be an A to be either A or not A. Right?
IMHO logic is prescriptive since what is being described could not be otherwise. It transcends any particular circumstance and applies universally regardless of the type or degree of any particular thing.
That seems a little flip. Logic can be predictive but I don't see why you'd say prescriptive. Logic applied correctly and hooked up to solid premises, can yield a correct prediction. The logic dictates nothing, and its predictive power is entirely dependent upon a correct assessment of the salient factors. Logic is a tool, nothing more.