On Logic and Alternate Universes

[GrandizerII]

-If- there were another universe, with another set of rules, that would be interesting. What would those rules look like? What would their relationship to each other and to whatever passes for truth in that universe be? How might it be, in that universe, that 2 and 2 yielded 5? Maybe...in that universe, when you combined 2 of something with 2 of something, an extra something popped into existence. If that were the case, then their math would likely reflect that. Afer all, this ath, these logical rules, they're all, ultimately, based in observations of our universe.

Actually, continuing from this, wouldn't it be very convenient - almost useful to the point of explaining why the word exists - to call this universe 'logical'? Because if it were, then it would definitely be interesting to think about. What's the point I'm making? That perhaps to be illogical is to be inconsistent. If somehow their set of axioms never gave the same answer to 2 + 2, then it would be completely illogical, because to them ponies are mushroom explodes, but tomorrow ponies are grey babbles. Nothing ever follows, because nothing really follows a set of axioms. And this kind of universe isn't interesting because we could never grasp anything about it, since nothing will follow from anything we can say about it.

The thing is, when you determine that something is illogical, you must be forced to use our (this universe's/cosmos's) logic to make that determination. I don't, and most likely will never, know what it is like for anything to be logical in a way different from our usual conception of logic. And I have no idea how to determine that something we determine to be illogical using our logic can be possible regardless of our logic.

So my answer, overall, is that if something that is illogical by our logic (such as A being not A simultaneously) can happen regardless, then so be it. But I just won't ever know using our logic.