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Claims are constantly being made, many of which are confusing, ambiguous, too general to be of value, exaggerated, unfalsifiable, and suggest a dichotomy when no such dichotomy exists. Good critical thinking requires a thorough understanding of the claim before attempting to determine its veracity. Good communication requires the ability to make clear, precise, explicit claims, or “strong” claims. The rules of reason in this book provide the framework for obtaining this understanding and ability.
This book / online course is about the the eleven rules of reason for making and evaluating claims. Each covered in detail in the book.
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Ironically they are using logic to try and invalidate logic. |
answered on Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022 10:51:00 PM by Jason Mathias | |
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It's worth pointing out that circular reasoning is only problematic when the circles are insufficiently large to exchange meaningful information. This is because arguably, all arguments are circular, as they all converge on first principles or axioms. If the circle is big enough, though, it will attempt to adequately justify its conclusions with evidenced, supporting premises. In addition, as Jason Mathias points out, anyone who says this is using logic to try and invalidate logic - this is the stolen concept fallacy. Further, the argument itself can be made circular: Logic is required to justify logic -> Using logic to justify logic is circular reasoning -> circular reasoning is invalid -> logic is invalid, because -> logic is required to justify logic... |
answered on Wednesday, Jun 29, 2022 09:54:12 AM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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I don't think that logic is required to justify logic. As somebody already said (what I remember they said), axioms are valid to use in systems. The branch of study is the system and the axioms. Example: The associative law of addition is needed to perform arithmetic. Would we really say that mathematics is required to justify the associative law of addition? I think that there's a play of words with premise 1. By requiring logic to justify logic, what we mean is that rules of inference are needed to perform deductions. Would we really say that logic is required to justify the rules of inference? Then there is a confusion between the name of the branch of study and the axioms they're used to perform the operations that the system is meant to allow. Example: Modus ponens is a rule of inference found in logic. Therefore, modus ponens is logic. This would be appeal to definition. 1. The dictionary definition of "logic" does not distinguish the branch of study with the rules of inference. C. Therefore, there is no distinction between the name of the branch with the rules. Notice how premise 2 depends on premise 1. The reasoning becomes circular only if we insist that the name of the branch is the same as the rules that we use. |
answered on Wednesday, Jun 29, 2022 11:22:31 PM by Jorge | |
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If it is circular reasoning to use logic to justify the logic then so is using faith to justify faith. This negates both - which might be their intention. If, however, they are using logic to justify faith, I assume they would be okay with using faith to justify logic. It would be helpful to know whether, when they refer to logic, they mean,
If it is purely a priori reasoning then you can appeal to empirical evidence for the efficacy of deductive reasoning. The problem is that it is impossible to make sense of evidence without using some deduction. If they are denying the validity of any form of deduction then communication becomes impossible which makes the conversation (quite literally) meaningless. |
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answered on Thursday, Jun 30, 2022 06:50:14 AM by Trevor Folley | |||||||||
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