Logics handbook

[Marshal Murat]

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[Incongruous]

I am taking this course as part of my first year requirements for Law School. I took it because I thought "hey philosophy, it's generally considered a joke by the smart kids at at school". God damned hard is what it is, plus my lecturer is abaout as enthused as as an un-enthused liberal democrat leader.

[Incongruous]

Actually thinking about it more, I beleive that it is just a load of rubbish.

It is an attempt to make a science out of human expression and belief, something utterly immpossible. It seems to be used to simply shut down diologue between two people. As hardly anyone takes philosophy, when compared to other subjects, so you are left with a group of people whom when they engage in arguments attempt to make use of a non-universal and minorative form of thinking, and they do, in my nast experiance yesterday, use it to shut down every decent debate, on the grounds that you are not conforming to their pattern of logic.

Its completely absurd.

of coarse this was after s nasty clash with some big headed twenty two year old in my class. So I am completley biased.

[Rodion Romanovich]

a non-universal and minorative form of thinking

That sounds like they aren't using normal logic, or that they are misunderstanding logic. Logic states exactly the same as what everybody would say intuitively, but structures it up systematically to prevent fallacies when arguments get more complex. It isn't uncommon for people to either misunderstand logic or abuse the traps in it to deceive others while claiming to be using logic. Could you repeat what that person said so we can judge whether he was right or not?

Edit: actually originally logic stemmed from rather the opposite of what you describe. Read about Socrates, who tried to prevent being silenced by people with more power and influence, by demonstrating that what certain people trying to deceive stated could be nothing but lies. Socrates of course ended up killed for his sharp tongue and mind...

[Sjakihata]

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