(February 15, 2018 at 7:20 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 1:30 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: 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.
I'm referring to the principles of logic not the contents. Kind of like the quadratic equation without any assigned values to the variables.