RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
December 26, 2021 at 9:28 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2021 at 10:06 pm by vulcanlogician.)
I don't think anyone wants to say that what is logical is necessarily correct. Solipsism is rational. But who can say if it's correct? Nobody.
I tend to think solipsism is false. But a reasonable person could be a solipsist. Why not? Nothing disproves it. "Solipsism is false," isn't a logical conclusion. It's an axiom. A very, very, very good axiom.
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Logic doesn't get us to the correct answer, it gets us to the logical answer. It must be properly done, of course, like math. But the cool thing is (when we use logic correctly) if our premises are true, our conclusion is true. Logic can give useful information in this way. But, as Poly said earlier, --in a vacuum- it can't help us determine what is true. It can only say "If A is true, then B is true."
But that can be pretty useful.
I tend to think solipsism is false. But a reasonable person could be a solipsist. Why not? Nothing disproves it. "Solipsism is false," isn't a logical conclusion. It's an axiom. A very, very, very good axiom.
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Logic doesn't get us to the correct answer, it gets us to the logical answer. It must be properly done, of course, like math. But the cool thing is (when we use logic correctly) if our premises are true, our conclusion is true. Logic can give useful information in this way. But, as Poly said earlier, --in a vacuum- it can't help us determine what is true. It can only say "If A is true, then B is true."
But that can be pretty useful.
