RE: Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.
December 31, 2017 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2017 at 12:46 am by vulcanlogician.)
(December 28, 2017 at 1:08 pm)alpha male Wrote: Not really. Consistency by itself doesn't get you anywhere. And while you can technically divorce logic from the premises it acts on, for practical purposes they're bundled. Logical rules without premises to act on don't accomplish anything.
Consistency by itself gets you somewhere, it just doesn't take you all the way. You need good information too.
Math is consistent. F=mg works every time when trying to calculate an unknown.
Once you obtain the values of m and g, you can use the equation to figure out F. But you'll get the wrong answer if you plug in the wrong number for any one variable. Accepting premises as true when they are false is like plugging incorrect variables into an algebraic equation. If you plug bad information into an algebraic expression, you get bad information out of it. This says nothing about algebra's efficacy. So it is with logic.
Quote:I haven't said I value logic in no way. You've got to watch your false dichotomies.
But you said earlier:
Quote:Point being that you've already asserted that logic is better than faith in such regard, but you don't know if it's true. The assertion just flows from your materialist worldview. [my emphasis]The assertion that "logic is better than faith" in no way follows from materialism. That is my claim. If anyone is putting his toes in the false dichotomy shark pool, it's you.
