(July 7, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: sigh, negative. One can attempt to invalidate logic. It doesn't require faith. Logic isn't a thing..it is a set of observations. There is no "Logic" floating around forcing things to conform to itself.
Logic is a thing. It is three rules.
A = A. (Identity)
A ≠ not A. (Contradiction)
A must be either A or not A. (Excluded Middle)
And this is either taken on faith to be true (and hence mathematics are also true)... or it is taken to be not true (and hence scientists are smoking the crack-rock, or flarp)
And there is this thing called tautology (identity). Cheese is cheese by tautology. It cannot be not cheese. It cannot be a third option.
And logic has only itself to support itself
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
