RE: Was logic invented or discovered?
March 19, 2013 at 9:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 9:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't reject an inherently orderly universe Chad, I reject it's use as an axiom or presupposition. We've come just a tad bit further than simply assuming that the universe is inherently orderly, or excusing an unwillingness to demonstrate that order by preferring to call it an axiom.
If you prefer, supposing that the universe were not inherently orderly, rational thought would still be entirely possible, conforming instead to those observations about how that universe seamed to behave (if it were some "other-than-inherently-orderly" manner). Similarly, one needn't make the assumption - or even have knowledge that the universe is inherently orderly for logic and reason that is based on an inherently orderly universe to work or make sense within that universe. It isn't the assumption or our knowledge of it that makes it work........
If you prefer, supposing that the universe were not inherently orderly, rational thought would still be entirely possible, conforming instead to those observations about how that universe seamed to behave (if it were some "other-than-inherently-orderly" manner). Similarly, one needn't make the assumption - or even have knowledge that the universe is inherently orderly for logic and reason that is based on an inherently orderly universe to work or make sense within that universe. It isn't the assumption or our knowledge of it that makes it work........
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