[FRIAM] it's world logic day!

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Glen,

My definition arises from a logician, perhaps the foremost American logician.  I just did a quick run though some dictionary definitions of "logic", and the one I offer does not seem to be particularly exceptional.  I wonder if the "celebratory" announcement was even written by a logician, given that it left out the evaluation at the core of saying that an argument is "logical".   Finally, I am startled to be hauled before the court of FRIAM on the grounds of "arrogance".  I would have thought that arrogance was our most endearing feature.  Each of us -- including you, my friend -- feels qualified to re-examine any doctrine, no matter how authoritative and time-honored.  We are the little lad in the fable THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES.  I would not have it otherwise.  Would you?

Nick  

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] it's world logic day!

Its funny how a non-logician presupposes he has a better definition of logic than others. The arrogance is debilitating.

On 1/14/21 8:31 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> It’s nice to know that logic is being celebrated.  Still – surprise!—I have a correction.
> 
> Logic ... [is] the principles of [right] reasoning,
> 
> Funny how, this article, a celebration of logic, buggers the 
> definition of logic, leaving out it’s ethical dimension.  Well, unless one believes that specious or fallacious logic is “logical”, logic is “good” thought, i.e. thought that leads probably to the truth.

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