(February 16, 2018 at 1:35 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 11:05 pm)Khemikal Wrote: The principles of logic are only as good as how accurately they describe the universe under which we live, Neo. They're dependent upon them, as well..as all things we know must be.
Weakness of the system. Just remember not to fall asleep..that's when the night maers get you.
You intentionally conflate ontology with epistemology because it suits you. It is similar to how there are natural laws that govern the universe and there are formulas describing/modeling those laws. Saying that something is descriptive implies some other thing being described.
I assume, and I think we should all assume (for the sake of rationality!), that the laws of logic hold unconditionally in this Existence, that there are logical absolutes regardless of how we arrive at them, or whether or not we ever do.
But then again, Existence doesn't owe us jack shit. If there's no logical sense to this Existence, then there just isn't, and we're all doomed. Logic is the best we can do, and it's not reasonable to not rely on it, but at least if logically problematic stuff does occur, then God can create square circles, and ain't that a good thing!