had a dream where, through a series of internally consistent, utterly convincing logical steps, I was able to prove that I was not dreaming
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You forget that the very tools you are using come from a compromised source, and are suspect from the start
We use logic to separate objective reality from what is a product of the mind, but logic itself is a tool brought into existence by the mind
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The oldest question in philosophy: can we know anything? Given that all our cognitive tools are like a deck of cards handed by a magician
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That's leaving out the whole component of learning, of education. Of the soul, of the Heart. We can feel things along with know.
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Logical proof and error detection requires both of its parts : proven premises and careful deduction to be correct all along the way
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Completely missing the point, which is that logic itself is suspect
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If we are fooled by logical fallacy it is mostly failing to catch a flaw in one of the premise
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Nice...based on your thoughts unless you are already in it, I think you'd appreciate Buddhist/Taoist classics. Bohr, Leibniz & Jung all did.
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Curious about logic. Do humans actually use logic or some approximation of it?
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